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Flowering :: Flowering (n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification..

Ovary :: Ovary (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower..

Floriculture :: Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.

Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..

Rhizocarpous :: Rhizocarpous (a.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs..

Lowering :: Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky..

Fibrovascular :: Fibrovascular (a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular..

Phanerogamia :: Phanerogamia (n. pl.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants..

Flowering :: Flowering (n.) The act of adorning with flowers.

Chelone :: Chelone (n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc..

Bulbel :: Bulbel (n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Lowery :: Lowery (a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather..

Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

Cineraria :: Cineraria (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament..

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..

Floricultural :: Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

Glomerule :: Glomerule (n.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood..

Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

Drop :: Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.

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