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floral
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective floral has 3 senses
- floral(s = adj.all) flowered - resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers; "an unusual floral design"
- floral(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or associated with flowers; "floral organs"
- floral(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the plant life in a particular region; "characteristic alpine floral elements" Derived form noun flora2
CIDE DICTIONARY
floral, a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F. floral. See Flora.].
- Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths. [1913 Webster]
- Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
floral, adj.
1 of flowers.
2 decorated with or depicting flowers.
3 of flora or floras.
1 of flowers.
2 decorated with or depicting flowers.
3 of flora or floras.
Derivative
florally adv.
Etymology
L floralis or flos floris flower
THESAURUS
floral
blooming, bloomy, blossoming, efflorescent, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, flowery, garden, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, multiflorous, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, uniflorousROGET THESAURUS
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Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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