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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.

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.