Word Meanings - FLORICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The cultivation of flowering plants.
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- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs 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. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - FLOWERAGE
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson. - FLOWERING
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 , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow - FLOWERET
A small flower; a floret. Shak. - FLOWER-GENTLE
A species of amaranth . - FLOWER
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists - FLOWERER
A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin. - FLOWER-FENCE
A tropical leguminous bush (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. - CULTIVATION
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state - FLOWERFUL
Abounding with flowers. Craig. - FLOWER STATE
Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus. - BALL-FLOWER
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. - THREE-FLOWERED
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers. - JOSEPH'S FLOWER
A composite herb , of the same genus as the salsify. - SPOONFLOWER
The yautia. - DEFLOWER
See MILTON - SUNFLOWER
Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America. - SAFFLOWER
An annual composite plant , the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron. 2. The died flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius. 3. A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin . Oil of safflower, - NOON-FLOWER
The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.