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The goddess of flowers and spring.

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

In a floral manner.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. Pryce.

Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

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

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

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

Having flowers like buds.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

Same as Prefloration. Gray.

Æstivation.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.