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A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

ly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

ame from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Having anomalous flowers.

f bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. Gray.

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.]