Reverse Dictionary: FLOWER

ADJECTIVES
► EXOLETE of flowers, etc.: faded or withered → 1730 obs.
► FLORULOUS full of flowers, flowery; blossoming → 19C obs.
► INNOCENT of flowers: small, pretty, unobtrusive → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACTIFLOROUS having flowers white like milk → 1855
► MILLEFLOROUS having very numerous flowers → 1856
► MYRIANTHOUS bearing very many flowers → 1857 obs.
► RARE-RIPE ripening or flowering early → 1799 US
► VAPID of flowers: scentless → c1750
► WELK of a flower, plant, etc.: to lose freshness or greenness; to become flaccid or dry; to wilt, to wither, to fade → c1250 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YFLOURED having flowers → 1340 obs.

NOUNS
► ANTHOMANIA an extreme love for flowers → 1991 (Bk.)
► ANTHOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of flowers → 1991 (Bk.)
► APRIL SHOWERS flowers → 20C rhyming sl.
► BAB a posy or nosegay of flowers; a tassel or bunch of ribbons → 1816 Sc.
► BEE-WINE nectar of a flower → 1818
► BLOSSOM BUSHES garden flowers → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BLOSSOMS flowers → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BOB a nosegay → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOW-POT a nosegay, a bouquet → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUTTONHOLER a flower or small spray of flowers worn in the lapel buttonhole or on the lapel of a coat or jacket → 1873 obs.
► CROWNET a cluster of flowers; the leafy head of a tree → 1578 obs.
► DICKY-DAISY a children’s name for almost any wildflower, esp. the daisy, Bellis perennis → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DUST the pollen of flowers → 1776
► ETERNALS everlasting flowers → 1865 Eng. dial.
► EVERLASTINGS roadside flowers → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FALLIE ► FALLY a flower; usually used in the plural → 20C
► FIELD GENTRY wildflowers that grow in meadows → 1969 Amer. dial.
► FLORIMANIA a mania for plants and flowers → 1991 (Bk.)
► FLOSCLE a flower → 1599 obs.
► GUM-FLOWERS artificial flowers → 1756 Sc.
► JAG the large head of a flower → 1881 Eng. dial.
► OLFACTORY anything to smell; a posy or nosegay → 1656 obs.
► POSEY ► POSY a flower → 1882 Amer. dial.
► QUATERPETAL a plant whose flowers have four petals → 1715 obs.
► RAMILLET a bouquet or nosegay of flowers → c1620 obs.
► SMELLING CHEAT a nosegay → 19C cant. obs.
► SMOTHER a wild profusion of flowers, etc. → 1888
► SPANNISHING the full blooming of a flower → c1400 obs.
► STRIG the stalk of a leaf, fruit, or flower → 1565
► TAME FLOWERS a child’s word for garden flowers as distinguished from wildflowers → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TASS a large bunch; a cluster of flowers → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TETTY a nosegay → 1790 Eng. dial.
► TISTY-TOSTY a bunch of flowers, a nosegay → 1825 obs.
► TITTY a nosegay → 1790 Eng. dial.
► TUSSIE-MUSSIE  ► TUZZIE-MUZZIE  ► TUZZY-MUZZY a bunch or posy of flowers; a nosegay → c1440
► TUSSY a posy or cluster of flowers or leaves → 1541 obs.
► TUTTY a nosegay, a posy; a bunch of flowers → 1578

NOUNS – SPECIFIC FLOWER (also see DAISY, etc.)
► HOCKHOLLER hollyhock → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► JACK a single carnation (sold as a choice carnation) → 1878 horticultural sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANTHOMANIAC a person who is intensely fond of flowers → 1841
► GALANTHOPHILE a collector of or expert on snowdrops → 1892 chiefly Brit.

VERBS
► BLAW to blossom, to flower → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► SAB of flowers: to droop, to become limp → 1808 Sc. obs.