Word Meanings - TRUMPET-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

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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
• DILATIVE
  Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.
• 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.
• DILATORILY
  With delay; tardily.
• TRUMPET
  A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• DILATATION
  A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. (more info) 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. "What needeth greater dilatation" Chaucer. 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• TUBULARIAE
  See TUBULARIDA
• TRUMPET-SHAPED
  Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
• DILATED
  Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.
• TRUMPETWOOD
  A tropical American tree of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
• DILATION
  Delay. Bp. Hall.
• DILATER
  One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
• DILATABLE
  Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
• 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.