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the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.

e organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Bl…

Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

sh (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

A small flower; a floret. Shak.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

The state of being flowery.

Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils,…

Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.

State of being without flowers.

A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.

That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a fou…