- A small flower - Broccoli chunk left or gone off - Flower head - Small flower - A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which
compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle,
and dandelion. - A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
- A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat
rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by
the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of
a car. - The turtlehead. - The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under
Guinea.
- A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or
head. - A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain
ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy
ferns. - The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also
involucrum.