Ball-flower (n.) 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. |
Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Denmark satin () See under Satin. |
Elegant (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste |
Elegant (a.) Exercising a nice choice |
Farewell (interj.) Go well |
Farewell (n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting |
Farewell (n.) Act of departure |
Farewell (a.) Parting |
Flower (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant |
Flower (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs |
Flower (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything |
Flower (n.) Grain pulverized |
Flower (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation |
Flower (n.) A figure of speech |
Flower (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. |
Flower (n.) Menstrual discharges. |
Flower (v. i.) To blossom |
Flower (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition. |
Flower (v. i.) To froth |
Flower (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation. |
Flower (v. t.) To embellish with flowers |
Flower-de-luce (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) 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. |
Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers |
Flower-gentle (n.) A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). |
Gang-flower (n.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. |
Garland (n.) The crown of a king. |
Garland (n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown |
Garland (n.) The top |
Garland (n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry |
Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in. |
Garland (n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling. |
Garland (v. t.) To deck with a garland. |
Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Joseph's flower () A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify. |
July-flower (n.) See Gillyflower. |
Mountain (n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land |
Mountain (n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations |
Mountain (n.) A mountainlike mass |
Mountain (a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains |
Mountain (a.) Like a mountain |
Noon-flower (n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
Poly-mountain (n.) Same as Poly, n. |
Poly-mountain (n.) The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. |
Poly-mountain (n.) The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe. |
Satin (n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface. |
Spring (v. i.) To leap |
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
farewell leave leave-taking parting | the act of departing politely, he disliked long farewells, he took his leave, parting is such sweet sorrow |
leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
mountain climbing mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
phytotherapy herbal therapy botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
flower gardening floriculture | the cultivation of flowering plants |
spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |