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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.

ony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

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

A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

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

ogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

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

railing 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.

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.

llidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

ylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is placed in an inclined position, and the lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, the water is raised to the upper end. Francis.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

reolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.