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Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

A description of flowers.

Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

A discourses on flowers. [R.]

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

Checking the flow of saliva.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

ents; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.