flower gardening floriculture | the cultivation of flowering plants |
Venus's flower basket | a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework, found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia |
artificial flower | a handmade imitation of a blossom |
damask | a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it |
damask | a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern |
florist florist shop flower store | a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold |
flower arrangement floral arrangement | a decorative arrangement of flowers |
flowerbed flower bed bed of flowers | a bed in which flowers are growing |
flower chain | flowers strung together in a chain |
flower garden | a garden featuring flowering plants |
flower power | a counterculture of young people in the US during the s and s |
flower people hippies hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
Addis Ababa New Flower capital of Ethiopia | the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city, located in central Ethiopia |
flower girl | a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession |
flower girl | a woman who sells flowers in the street |
hippie hippy hipster flower child | someone who rejects the established culture, advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle |
flower bloom blossom | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts |
flower | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
wildflower wild flower | wild or uncultivated flowering plant |
apetalous flower | flower having no petals |
flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae |
ray flower ray floret | small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower |
petal flower petal | part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored |
buttercup butterflower butter-flower crowfoot goldcup kingcup | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
monkshood helmetflower helmet flower Aconitum napellus | a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers, the dried leaves and roots yield aconite |
leather flower Clematis versicolor | woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
leather flower vase-fine vase vine Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
fennel flower Nigella hispanica | nigella of Spain and southern France |
black caraway nutmeg flower Roman coriander Nigella sativa | herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway |
pasqueflower pasque flower | any plant of the genus Pulsatilla, sometimes included in genus Anemone |
American pasqueflower Eastern pasque flower wild crocus lion's beard prairie anemone blue tulip American pulsatilla Pulsatilla patens Anemone ludoviciana | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers, North America and Siberia |
globeflower globe flower | any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers |
coralwood coral-wood red sandalwood Barbados pride peacock flower fence Adenanthera pavonina | East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental |
Nepal trumpet flower Easter lily vine Beaumontia grandiflora | evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers |
crape jasmine crepe jasmine crepe gardenia pinwheel flower East Indian rosebay Adam's apple Nero's crown coffee rose Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
anthurium tailflower tail-flower | any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers |
flamingo flower flamingo plant Anthurium andraeanum Anthurium scherzerianum | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
spathiphyllum peace lily spathe flower | any of various plants of the genus Spathiphyllum having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental |
ragged robin cuckoo flower Lychnis flosuculi Lychins floscuculi | common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals |
love-lies-bleeding velvet flower tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
scarlet musk flower Nyctaginia capitata | viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers |
paper flower Bougainvillea glabra | Brazilian vine that tends to flower continuously |
flame flower flame-flower flameflower Talinum aurantiacum | plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil, southwestern United States, Indians once cooked the fleshy roots |
narrow-leaved flame flower Talinum augustissimum | similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers, southwestern United States |
spider flower spider plant Cleome hassleriana | native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States, grown for its long-lasting spider-shaped white to pink-purple flowers |
lady's smock cuckooflower cuckoo flower meadow cress Cardamine pratensis | a bitter cress of Europe and America |
whitlow grass shadflower shad-flower Draba verna | annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules |
Siberian wall flower Erysimum allionii Cheiranthus allionii | showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
western wall flower Erysimum asperum Cheiranthus asperus Erysimum arkansanum | biennial or short-lived perennial prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers, western North America to Minnesota and Kansas, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
damask violet Dame's violet sweet rocket Hesperis matronalis | long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening, naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |