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10 words match “BOUQUET”

BOUQUET n. 2 definitions
A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
BOUQUETIN n.
The ibex.
ALYSSUM n.
A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.
BOTTOM FERMENTATION n.
(39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.
BOUTONNIERE n.
A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
BUSKET n.
A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.
FLOWER n.
er (Zoöl.) See under Animal. -- Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus Meligethes, family Nitidulidæ, some of…
NOSEGAY n.
A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope.
OENANTHIC a.
Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. OEnanthylic. OEnanthic acid, an acid obtained from oenanthic ether by the action of alkalies. -- OEnant…
POSY n.
A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. "Bridegroom's posies." Spenser. We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies. Swift.