Observations which have flowered off.
Milton.
Flow"er, v. t. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated
flowers; as, flowered silk.
Flow"er*age (?; 48), n. State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in
general. Tennyson.
Flow"er-de-luce" (?), n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) 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.
There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate
zone. Some of the best known are Iris Germanica, I. Florentina, I.
Persica, I. sambucina, and the American I. versicolor, I. prismatica,
etc.
Flow"er*er (?), n. A plant which flowers or blossoms.
Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers.
Darwin.
Flow"er*et (?), n. A small flower; a floret. Shak.
Flow"er-fence` (?), n. (Bot.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or
CÊsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red
flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in
the West Indies. Baird.
Flow"er*ful (?), a. Abounding with flowers. Craig.
Flow"er-gen`tle (?), n. (Bot.) A species of amaranth (Amarantus
melancholicus).
Flow"er*i*ness (?), n. The state of being flowery.
Flow"er*ing, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an
epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering
dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous
bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering
plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds;
phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. --
Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an
umbel of rosy blossoms.
Flow"er*ing, n. 1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants
blossom; florification.