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Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

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,…

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

llidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

r to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

pecies (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceaæ., natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

looming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. -- China shop, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. -- China ware, porcelain; -- so…

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.