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DAISY |
Common flower |
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BUTTERCUP |
Common yellow flower |
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STOCK |
Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common
stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
annua). |
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COWSLIP |
A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow
blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the
United States. |
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AGGREGATE |
Composed of several florets within a common involucre,
as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in
the raspberry. |
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PINK |
A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red
with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the
flower. |
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PEDICEL |
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether
solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See
Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. |
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LION'S TAIL |
A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from
a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's
tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort. |
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UMBEL |
A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate
from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or
compound; in th... |
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HONESTY |
...d also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria
biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty. ... |
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CUTWORM |
...day, they conceal
themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various
species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.... |
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NASTURTIUM |
...erbs,
having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and
including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bi... |