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A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. Johnson.

To deprive of flowers.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

To flow down. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

See Deflourer. Milton.

ens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

To flow before. [Obs.]

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

Having the flowers arranged in pairs.