Webster's Dictionary 1913

2269

Florid

Flor″id (?), a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.] 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.2....

2270

Florida bean

Flor″i‐da bean″ (?). (Bot.) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. (b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.

2271

Florideæ

‖Flo‐rid″e‐æ (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. flos, floris, a flower.] (Bot.) A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; — so call...

2272

Floridity

Flo‐rid″i‐ty (?), n. The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.

2273

Floridly

Flor″id‐ly (?), adv. In a florid manner.

2274

Floridness

Flor″id‐ness, n. The quality of being florid. Boyle.

2275

Floriferous

Flo‐rif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. florifer; flos, floris, flower + ferre to bear; cf. F. florifère.] Producing flowers. Blount.

2276

Florification

Flo′ri‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. flos, floris, flower + facere to make.] The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

2277

Floriform

Flo″ri‐form (? or?), a. [L. flos, floris, flower + -form: cf. F. floriforme.] Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

2278

Floriken

Flo″ri‐ken (?), n.(Zoöl.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, florikin, florican.]

2279

Florilege

Flo″ri‐lege (?), n. [L. florilegus flower-culling; flos, floris, flower + legere to gather: cf. F. florilège.] The act of gathering flowers.

2280

Florimer

Flo″ri‐mer (?), n.(Bot.) See Floramour.

2281

Florin

Flor″in (?), n. [F. florin, It. florino, orig., a Florentine coin, with a lily on it, fr. flore a flower, fr. L. flos. See Flower, and cf. Floren.] A silver coin of Florence, fi...

2282

Florist

Flo″rist (? or?; 277), n. [Cf. F. fleuriste, floriste, fr. F. fleur flower. See Flower.] 1. A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.2. One who writes a flora, or an account of pl...

2283

Floroon

Flo‐roon″ (?), n. [F. fleuron. See Flower.] A border worked with flowers. Wright.

2284

Florulent

Flor″u‐lent (?), a. [L. florulentus, fr. flos, floris, flower.] Flowery; blossoming. Blount.

2285

Flos-ferri

‖Flos′–fer″ri (?), n.(Min.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; — common in beds of iron ore.

2286

Floscular

Flos″cu‐lar (?), a.(Bot.) Flosculous.

2287

Floscularian

Flos′cu‐la″ri‐an (?), n. [From L. flosculus a floweret.] (Zoöl.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

2288

Floscule

Flos‐cule (?), n. [L. flosculus, dim. of flos flower: cf. F. floscule.] (Bot.) A floret.

2289

Flosculous

Flos″cu‐lous (?), a.(Bot.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

2290

Flosh

Flosh (?), n. [Cf. G. flösse a trough in which tin ore is washed.] (Metallurgy) A hopper-shaped box or �nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps. Knight.

2291

Floss

Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See Flux, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called sil...

2292

Floss (2)

Floss, n. [Cf. G. floss a float.] 1. A small stream of water.2. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which ar...

2293

Floss (3)

Floss, n. A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.

2294

Flossification

Flos′si‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [Cf. Florification.] A flowering; florification. Craig.

2295

Flossy

Floss″y (?; 115), a. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.