Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting numerous plants with white flowers: as, white-flowered azalea, broom, cinquefoil, etc.
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- adjective (of plants) having white flowers
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Examples
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He tried to make his way back to the trail, then to where he thought the parking lot was, and to traffic he heard on a nearby four-lane highway, using palmetto trees and white-flowered shrubs as markers.
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Maybe also the time that we feel a sneaking admiration for, say, the bindweed, an exquisite white-flowered morning glory, and its tenacious powers of survival.
Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds Richard Mabey 2011
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He ended the day bowing before a white-flowered wreath before leading staff outside for a candle light vigil.
Evelyn Leopold: Haiti: Who's Coordinating the Coordinators? UN Asks For More Troops 2010
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The deep-red rose and the white-flowered vine were sold as a combo by the White Flower Farm catalog to bloom together, with the vine curling gracefully around the shrub.
Grow, Memory 2010
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'Mount Everest' is a tall, white-flowered allium, and looks good playing the same role among pastels.
Gardens: Alliums 2010
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"Jasmine" the poem, like jasmine the white-flowered plant, claims the land with gentle defiance.
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He ended the day bowing before a white-flowered wreath before leading staff outside for a candle light vigil.
Evelyn Leopold: Haiti: Who's Coordinating the Coordinators? UN Asks For More Troops 2010
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Similarly elegant, yet more modest of colour, are the white-flowered G. 'The Bride' and the muted pastel G. papilio.
In the garden this week: Net fruit bushes, plus gladioli times 2010
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At these altitudes, lianas and climbers become common, especially the white-flowered liana Bauhinia.
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Conspicuous are the aromatic narrow-leaved white-flowered Labrador-tea Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens and, on richer drier soils, the purple-flowered Lapland rose-bay Rhododendron lapponicum.
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