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Word Meanings - INSERTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • GROWL
    To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
  • 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.
  • INSERT
    To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • GROWAN
    A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • GROWER
    One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
  • GROW
    1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
  • COROLLATE; COROLLATED
    Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.
  • SITUATE; SITUATED
    1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
  • INSERTING
    1. A setting in. 2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.
  • RECEPTACLE
    1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • INSERTED
    Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.
  • 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.
  • GONOCALYX
    The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
  • UPGROW
    To grow up. Milton.
  • REINSERT
    To insert again.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • FULL-GROWN
    Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • 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.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

 

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