Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no flowers; specifically, in botany, applied to cryptogamous plants, as opposed to phenogamous or flowering plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no flowers.
- adjective plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptogamous plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
flowers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without flower or bloom and not producing seeds
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Examples
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= Lichen =: a kind of flowerless plant that grows on stones, trees, boards, etc.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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Scrub grass, gravel, generations of wet and blackened leaves, something pale green and flowerless about to uncurl.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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He sees one flowerless stalk periscope up from the plant.
Water Ames John Gigounas 2011
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Scrub grass, gravel, generations of wet and blackened leaves, something pale green and flowerless about to uncurl.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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Microbes and insects that first evolved in the Devonian will descend in force, and soon the rose garden is a flowerless patch of thorns.
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Microbes and insects that first evolved in the Devonian will descend in force, and soon the rose garden is a flowerless patch of thorns.
On this Earth Day, a question: Take care of the garden or let it grow wild? 2010
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He was crowned with a flowerless wreath of greenthorn and juniper, meaning solace in adversity, offering protection.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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But for me it's the light, the color, the gesture, the moment, and most of all the flowered skirt that sets up a visual pun with the flowerless tree.
Print Giveaway #3 The Year in Pictures 2009
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He was crowned with a flowerless wreath of greenthorn and juniper, meaning solace in adversity, offering protection.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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He was crowned with a flowerless wreath of greenthorn and juniper, meaning solace in adversity, offering protection.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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