Word Meanings - BIRDSEYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

• Flowerage
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.
• Pheasant
  Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Flower-de-luce
  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.
• Pheasantry
  A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Flowerer
  A plant which flowers or blossoms.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Floweret
  A small flower; a floret.
• Plantlet
  A little plant.
• Veronica
  A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernac
• Flower-fence
  A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

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