- Daisy-like flower
- Flower rates poorly
- Michaelmas daisy
- Showy bloom
- Showy flower
- Starlike flower
- A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers;
starwort; Michaelmas daisy.
- To bloom
- In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the
showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from
the foliage.
- That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence
including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of
the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar
parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the
stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and
callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves
surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and
Corolla.
- The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as,
the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness
and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
- Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
- A substance in the form of a powder, especially when
condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.