The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of flowering plant English)
Usage examples of "flowering plants".
Fixing traits (producing homozygous offspring) in Cannabis strains is more difficult than it is in many other flowering plants.
The leaves of the male flowering plants are more pointed and less serrated than those on the female plants, which have longer stalks.
The British Pharmacopceia specifies, therefore, that the roots should be collected in the autumn from plants cultivated in Britain and should consist of the dried, full- grown 'daughter' roots: much of the Aconite root that used to come in large quantities from Germany was the exhausted parent root of the wild- flowering plants.
The plants will be good flowering plants in two years, but four years are required to bring them to perfection.
Both varieties are among the most beautiful of our winter-flowering plants, the toothed and lobed, somewhat heart-shaped leaves being extremely handsome with their crimson tints.
The mountain- ranges north-west of the Himalaya, and the long line of the Cordillera, seem to have afforded two great lines of invasion: and it is a striking fact, lately communicated to me by Dr Hooker, that all the flowering plants, about forty-six in number, common to Tierra del Fuego and to Europe still exist in North America, which must have lain on the line of march.
These variations in colour of the flowers of cultivated digitalis plants induced the author to undertake a study of the activity of the several varieties, based on the digitoxin content of the stem leaves collected from flowering plants.
There was time to raise fruit trees and flowering plants, to build fountains, to wonder about and pray for the half of the misr never expected to be seen again.
To think that some researchers had theorized that the dinosaurs died out because they could not chew the flowering plants!
He looked around at the tables and chairs and potted flowering plants.
Other lunas had formed a habit of beating either Chinese or Japanese as one would thrash a recalcitrant child, and by such methods the Europeans had maintained a ruthless dictatorship of the cane fields, but with the coming of pineapple, where an abused man seeking revenge could easily pass down a row of flowering plants and knock off hundreds of the tiny individual flowers, so that the resulting fruit would lack some of the small squares of which it should have been built, the lunas by and large surrendered their old prerogatives of lash and fist, and life in the plantations was not too bad.
She was in a corner of a room built of squared and carved stones, all girt about with flowering plants.
The flowering plants and the social insects had actually evolved in tandem, one serving the needs of the other.
That approach would be much more difficult to apply to plants because of the sheer number200,000of species of wild flowering plants, the plants that dominate vegetation on the land and that have furnished almost all of our crops.
When one hears that there are so many species of flowering plants, one's first reaction might be as follows: surely, with all those wild plant species on Earth, any area with a sufficiently benign climate must have had more than enough species to provide plenty of candidates for crop development.