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. |
Bloom
(n.) A blossom |
Bloom
(n.) The opening of flowers in general |
Bloom
(n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor |
Bloom
(n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness |
Bloom
(n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. |
Bloom
(n.) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. |
Bloom
(n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals |
Bloomed
(imp. & p. p.) of Bloom |
Blooming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloom |
Bloom
(v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms |
Bloom
(v. i.) To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor |
Bloom
(v. t.) To cause to blossom |
Bloom
(v. t.) To bestow a bloom upon |
Bloom
(n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. |
Bloom
(n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working. |
Blooming
(n.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. |
Blooming
(a.) Opening in blossoms |
Blooming
(a.) Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor |
Canker bloom
() The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. |
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. |
Flowered
(imp. & p. p.) of Flower |
Flowering
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flower |
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). |
Flowering
(a.) Having conspicuous flowers |
Flowering
(n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom |
Flowering
(n.) The act of adorning with flowers. |
Full-bloomed
(a.) Like a perfect blossom. |
Gang-flower
(n.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. |
Joseph's flower
() A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify. |
July-flower
(n.) See Gillyflower. |
Night-blooming
(a.) Blooming in the night. |
Noon-flower
(n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
Three-flowered
(a.) Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers. |
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 |
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 |
efflorescence
bloom | a powdery deposit on a surface |
| non-flowering plant | a plant that does not bear flowers |
angiosperm
flowering plant | plants having seeds in a closed ovary |
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 |
southern magnolia
evergreen magnolia
large-flowering magnolia
bull bay
Magnolia grandiflora | evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers |
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 |
lithops
living stone
stoneface
stone-face
stone plant
stone life face
flowering stone | any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones |
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 |
| night-blooming cereus | any of several cacti of the genus Cereus |
| night-blooming cereus | any of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus |
| night-blooming cereus | any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus |
| 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 |