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lowering
(encz) | lowering,snižování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Lowering
(gcide) | Lower \Low"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lowering.] [OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G.
lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.]
1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be
covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to
show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
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All the clouds that lowered upon our house. --Shak.
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2. To frown; to look sullen.
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But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
--Dryden.
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Lowering
(gcide) | Lower \Low"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lowering.] [From Low, a.]
1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended;
to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a
sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a
flag.
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Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love
Down to a silent grave. --Tennyson.
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2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to
lower a chimney or turret.
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3. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun;
to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's
ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
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4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as,
to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's
vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
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5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
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6. To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price
of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
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Lowering
(gcide) | Lowering \Low"er*ing\, a.
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or
sky.
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lowering
(wn) | lowering
adj 1: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy,
lowering, sullen, threatening]
n 1: the act of causing to become less
2: the act of causing something to move to a lower level [syn:
lowering, letting down] |
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dwarf flowering almond
(encz) | dwarf flowering almond, n: |
eastern flowering dogwood
(encz) | eastern flowering dogwood, n: |
flowering
(encz) | flowering,kvetoucí Jaroslav Šedivýflowering,rozkvět Jaroslav Šedivýflowering,rozkvetlý Jaroslav Šedivý |
flowering almond
(encz) | flowering almond, n: |
flowering ash
(encz) | flowering ash, n: |
flowering cherry
(encz) | flowering cherry, n: |
flowering crab
(encz) | flowering crab, n: |
flowering fern
(encz) | flowering fern, n: |
flowering glume
(encz) | flowering glume, n: |
flowering hazel
(encz) | flowering hazel, n: |
flowering onion
(encz) | flowering onion, n: |
flowering plant
(encz) | flowering plant, |
flowering quince
(encz) | flowering quince, n: |
flowering raspberry
(encz) | flowering raspberry, n: |
flowering shrub
(encz) | flowering shrub, n: |
flowering spurge
(encz) | flowering spurge, n: |
flowering stone
(encz) | flowering stone, n: |
flowering tobacco
(encz) | flowering tobacco, n: |
flowering tree
(encz) | flowering tree, n: |
flowering wintergreen
(encz) | flowering wintergreen, n: |
glowering
(encz) | glowering, adj: |
gloweringly
(encz) | gloweringly, adv: |
large-flowering magnolia
(encz) | large-flowering magnolia, n: |
lipid-lowering medication
(encz) | lipid-lowering medication, n: |
lipid-lowering medicine
(encz) | lipid-lowering medicine, n: |
loweringly
(encz) | loweringly, adv: |
nonflowering
(encz) | nonflowering,nekvetoucí |
nonflowering plant
(encz) | nonflowering plant, n: |
purple-flowering raspberry
(encz) | purple-flowering raspberry, n: |
winter flowering cherry
(encz) | winter flowering cherry, n: |
Deflowering
(gcide) | deflower \de*flow"er\, v. t. [Previously also spelled
deflour.] [imp. & p. p. Deflowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Deflowering.] [F. d['e]florer, LL. deflorare; L. de- +
flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and cf. Deflorate.]
1. To deprive of flowers.
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An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. --W.
Montagu.
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2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the
choicest ornament.
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3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to
ravish; also, to seduce.
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If a man had deflowered a virgin. --Milton.
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dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
(gcide) | Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: {argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered}: {cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured}: {dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky}: {misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): {shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
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2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
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3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: {annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing}; {nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
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Enflowering
(gcide) | Enflower \En*flow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enflowered; p. pr.
& vb. n. Enflowering.]
To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic]
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These odorous and enflowered fields. --B. Jonson.
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Flowering
(gcide) | Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, n.
1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom;
florification.
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2. The act of adorning with flowers.
[1913 Webster]Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowered
(flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowering.] [From the noun.
Cf. Flourish.]
1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to
produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
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2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.
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Their lusty and flowering age. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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When flowered my youthful spring. --Spenser.
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3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
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That beer did flower a little. --Bacon.
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4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]
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Observations which have flowered off. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Flowering \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.
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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.
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Flowering currant
(gcide) | Currant \Cur"rant\ (k?r"rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de
Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the
city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried
grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving
the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
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1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant,
chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
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2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common
red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
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3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus
Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the
Ribes rubrum.
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Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and {Ribes
floridum}) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit.
Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a
strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry.
Currant borer (Zool.), the larva of an insect that bores
into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the
larvae of a small clearwing moth ({[AE]geria
tipuliformis}) and a longicorn beetle ({Psenocerus
supernotatus}).
Currant worm (Zool.), an insect larva which eats the leaves
or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the
currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from
Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit
worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a
spanworm (Eupithecia).
Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes
(Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers.
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Flowering fern
(gcide) | Flowering \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.
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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.
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Flowering plants
(gcide) | Flowering \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.
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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.
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Flowering purslane
(gcide) | Purslane \Purs"lane\, n. [OF. porcelaine, pourcelaine (cf. It.
porcellana), corrupted fr. L. porcilaca for portulaca.]
(Bot.)
An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy,
succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and
for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
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Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the
Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca.
Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra)
with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves.
Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with
crowded opposite fleshy leaves.
Water purslane, an aquatic plant (Ludwiqia palustris) but
slightly resembling purslane.
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Flowering rush
(gcide) | Flowering \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.
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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.
[1913 Webster]Rush \Rush\, n. [OE. rusche, rische, resche, AS. risce, akin to
LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum
butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing
endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species
of Juncus and Scirpus.
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Note: Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting
mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to
lamps and rushlights.
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2. The merest trifle; a straw.
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John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.
--Arbuthnot.
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Bog rush. See under Bog.
Club rush, any rush of the genus Scirpus.
Flowering rush. See under Flowering.
Nut rush
(a) Any plant of the genus Scleria, rushlike plants with
hard nutlike fruits.
(b) A name for several species of Cyperus having
tuberous roots.
Rush broom, an Australian leguminous plant ({Viminaria
denudata}), having long, slender branches. Also, the
Spanish broom. See under Spanish.
Rush candle, See under Candle.
Rush grass, any grass of the genus Vilfa, grasses with
wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets.
Rush toad (Zool.), the natterjack.
Scouring rush. (Bot.) Same as Dutch rush, under Dutch.
Spike rush, any rushlike plant of the genus Eleocharis,
in which the flowers grow in dense spikes.
Sweet rush, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc.
(Andropogon schoenanthus), used in Oriental medical
practice.
Wood rush, any plant of the genus Luzula, which differs
in some technical characters from Juncus.
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Flowering wintergreen
(gcide) | Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
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Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
species of Pyrola which in America are called
English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf,
under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is
given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen
aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and
sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
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Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb
(Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia)
with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
blossoms.
oil of wintergreen, An aromatic oil, consisting almost
entirely of methyl salicylate (CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH),
obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from
some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for
tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol
or eucalyptus. It is called also oil of teaberry, {oil
of partridgeberry}, and oil of gaultheria.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila
maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
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Glowering
(gcide) | Glower \Glow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Glowering.] [Cf. Gloar.]
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
--Thackeray.
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having a cheerless aspect or disposition.
Syn: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
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glowering
(gcide) | Glower \Glow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Glowering.] [Cf. Gloar.]
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]glowering \glowering\ adj.
having a cheerless aspect or disposition.
Syn: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
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lipid-lowering
(gcide) | lipid-lowering \lipid-lowering\ a. (Med.)
Serving to reduce the concentration of lipid, such as
cholesterol, in the blood; -- of medications, such as
Mevinolin, that are used especially to reduce blood
cholesterol, as a preventive measure against heart disease.
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Lowering
(gcide) | Lower \Low"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lowering.] [OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G.
lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.]
1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be
covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to
show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
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All the clouds that lowered upon our house. --Shak.
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2. To frown; to look sullen.
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But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]Lower \Low"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lowering.] [From Low, a.]
1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended;
to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a
sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a
flag.
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Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love
Down to a silent grave. --Tennyson.
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2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to
lower a chimney or turret.
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3. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun;
to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's
ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
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4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as,
to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's
vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
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5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
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6. To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price
of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
[1913 Webster]Lowering \Low"er*ing\, a.
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or
sky.
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Loweringly
(gcide) | Loweringly \Low"er*ing*ly\, adv.
In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
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autumn-flowering
(wn) | autumn-flowering
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn-
flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, {fall-
blooming}, late-flowering, late-blooming] |
dwarf flowering almond
(wn) | dwarf flowering almond
n 1: small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit
grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers [syn:
dwarf flowering almond, Prunus glandulosa] |
early-flowering
(wn) | early-flowering
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the spring [syn: {spring-
flowering}, early-flowering, spring-blooming, {early-
blooming}, late-spring-blooming] |
eastern flowering dogwood
(wn) | eastern flowering dogwood
n 1: deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink
bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red
berries [syn: common white dogwood, {eastern flowering
dogwood}, Cornus florida] |
fall-flowering
(wn) | fall-flowering
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn-
flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, {fall-
blooming}, late-flowering, late-blooming] |
flowering
(wn) | flowering
adj 1: having a flower or bloom; "a flowering plant" [ant:
flowerless, nonflowering]
n 1: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
[syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence,
inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence]
2: a developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum
culture" [syn: unfolding, flowering] |
flowering almond
(wn) | flowering almond
n 1: deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed
leaves grown for its pink-white flowers [syn: {flowering
almond}, Prunus triloba]
2: woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown
especially for its white or pale pink blossoms [syn:
flowering almond, oriental bush cherry, {Prunus
japonica}] |
flowering ash
(wn) | flowering ash
n 1: southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in
dense panicles and yielding manna [syn: manna ash,
flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus]
2: shrubby California ash with showy off-white flowers [syn:
flowering ash, Fraxinus dipetala]
3: shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant
white flowers [syn: flowering ash, Fraxinus cuspidata] |
flowering cherry
(wn) | flowering cherry
n 1: any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus
cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double
blossoms |
flowering crab
(wn) | flowering crab
n 1: derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large
double pink blossoms [syn: Bechtel crab, {flowering
crab}]
2: small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated
as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms [syn:
Southern crab apple, flowering crab, {Malus
angustifolia}] |
flowering fern
(wn) | flowering fern
n 1: Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of
fertile fronds [syn: flowering fern, {Helminthostachys
zeylanica}]
2: any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping
rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that
resemble flower clusters [syn: flowering fern, osmund] |
flowering glume
(wn) | flowering glume
n 1: the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately
enclosing the floret in most Gramineae [syn: lemma,
flowering glume] |
flowering hazel
(wn) | flowering hazel
n 1: any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for
their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before
the leaves [syn: winter hazel, flowering hazel] |
flowering maple
(wn) | flowering maple
n 1: an ornamental plant of the genus Abutilon having leaves
that resemble maple leaves |
flowering onion
(wn) | flowering onion
n 1: European onion with white flowers [syn: daffodil garlic,
flowering onion, Naples garlic, Allium neopolitanum] |
flowering plant
(wn) | flowering plant
n 1: plants having seeds in a closed ovary [syn: angiosperm,
flowering plant] |
flowering quince
(wn) | flowering quince
n 1: Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or
red blossoms |
flowering raspberry
(wn) | flowering raspberry
n 1: shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy
rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped
fruit [syn: flowering raspberry, {purple-flowering
raspberry}, Rubus odoratus, thimbleberry] |
flowering shrub
(wn) | flowering shrub
n 1: shrub noted primarily for its flowers |
flowering spurge
(wn) | flowering spurge
n 1: common perennial United States spurge having showy white
petallike bracts [syn: wild spurge, flowering spurge,
tramp's spurge, Euphorbia corollata] |
flowering stone
(wn) | flowering stone
n 1: any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having
solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that
resemble stones [syn: lithops, living stone,
stoneface, stone-face, stone plant, {stone life
face}, flowering stone] |
flowering tobacco
(wn) | flowering tobacco
n 1: South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally
fragrant greenish-white flowers [syn: flowering tobacco,
Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata] |
flowering tree
(wn) | flowering tree
n 1: any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
[syn: angiospermous tree, flowering tree] |
flowering wintergreen
(wn) | flowering wintergreen
n 1: common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America
having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple
flowers with winged sepals [syn: flowering wintergreen,
gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala,
Polygala paucifolia] |
glowering
(wn) | glowering
adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum,
moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen] |
gloweringly
(wn) | gloweringly
adv 1: in a glowering manner; "he stared gloweringly at this
morning's headlines" |
japanese flowering cherry
(wn) | Japanese flowering cherry
n 1: ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in
many varieties for its pink blossoms [syn: {Japanese
flowering cherry}, Prunus sieboldii]
2: ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in
many varieties for its white blossoms [syn: {oriental
cherry}, Japanese cherry, Japanese flowering cherry,
Prunus serrulata] |
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