Flopwing noun (Zoology) The lapwing.

Flora noun [ Latin , the goddess of flowers, from flos , floris , flower. See Flower .]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of flowers and spring.

2. (Botany) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

Floral adjective [ Latin Floralis belonging to Flora : confer French floral . See Flora .]
1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

2. (Botany) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn.

Floral envelope (Botany) , the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

Florally adverb In a floral manner.

Floramour noun [ Latin flos , floris , flower + amor love.] The plant love-lies- bleeding. [ Obsolete] Prior.

Floran noun (Mining) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. Pryce.

Floréal noun [ French floréal , from Latin flos , floris , flower.] The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare .

Floren noun [ Late Latin florenus . See Florin .] A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Florence noun [ From the city of Florence : confer French florence a kind of cloth, Old French florin .]
1. An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. Camden.

2. A kind of cloth. Johnson.

Florence flask . See under Flask . -- Florence oil , olive oil prepared in Florence.

Florentine adjective [ Latin Florentinus , from Florentia Florence: confer French florentin .] Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.

Florentine mosaic , a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

Florentine noun
1. A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

2. A kind of silk. Knight.

3. A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [ Obsolete]

Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines .

Beau. & Fl.

Florescence noun [ See Florescent .] (Botany) A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Florescent adjective [ Latin florescens , present participle of florescere begin to blossom, incho. from florere to blossom, from flos , floris , flower. See Flower .] Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Floret noun [ Old French florete , French fleurette , dim. of Old French lor , French fleur . See Flower , and confer Floweret , 3d Ferret .]
1. (Botany) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

2. [ French fleuret .] A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.

Floriage noun [ Latin flos , floris , flower.] Bloom; blossom. [ Obsolete] J. Scott.

Floriated adjective (Architecture) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.

Floriation noun
1. Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.

2. Any floral ornament or decoration. Rock.

Floricomous adjective [ Latin flos , floris , flower + coma hair.] Having the head adorned with flowers. [ R.]

Floricultural adjective Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

Floriculture noun [ Latin flos , floris , flower + cultura culture.] The cultivation of flowering plants.

Floriculturist noun One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

Florid adjective [ Latin floridus , from flos , floris , flower. See Flower .]
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [ R.]

Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.

Jer. Taylor.

2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Florida bean (Botany) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens . See under Bean . (b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens .

Florideæ noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin flos , floris , a flower.] (Botany) A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

Floridity noun The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.

Floridly adverb In a florid manner.

Floridness noun The quality of being florid. Boyle.

Floriferous adjective [ Latin florifer ; flos , floris , flower + ferre to bear; confer French florifère .] Producing flowers. Blount.

Florification noun [ Latin flos , floris , flower + facere to make.] The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

Floriform adjective [ Latin flos , floris , flower + -form : confer French floriforme .] Having the form of a flower; flower- shaped.

Floriken noun (Zoology) An Indian bustard ( Otis aurita ). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis . [ Written also florikan , florikin , florican .]

Florilege noun [ Latin florilegus flower-culling; flos , floris , flower + legere to gather: confer French florilège .] The act of gathering flowers.

Florimer noun (Botany) See Floramour . [ Obsolete]

Florin noun [ French florin , Italian florino , orig., a Florentine coin, with a lily on it, from flore a flower, from Latin flos . See Flower , and confer Floren .] A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

Florist noun [ Confer French fleuriste , floriste , from French fleur flower. See Flower .]
1. A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

2. One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

Floroon noun [ French fleuron . See Flower .] A border worked with flowers. Wright.

Florulent adjective [ Latin florulentus , from flos , floris , flower.] Flowery; blossoming. [ Obsolete] Blount.

Flos-ferri noun [ Latin , flower of iron.] (Min.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

Floscular adjective (Botany) Flosculous.

Floscularian noun [ From Latin flosculus a floweret.] (Zoology) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

Floscule noun [ Latin flosculus , dim. of flos flower: confer French floscule .] (Botany) A floret.

Flosculous adjective (Botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Flosh noun [ Confer German 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.

Floss noun [ Italian floscio flabby, soft, from Latin fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See Flux , noun ]
1. (Botany) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk .

2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.

Floss silk , silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk . -- Floss thread , a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss , and floss yarn . McElrath.

Floss noun [ Confer German floss a float.]
1. A small stream of water. [ Eng.]

2. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

Floss hole . (a) A hole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out. (b) The tap hole of a melting furnace. Knight.

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

Flossification noun [ Confer Florification .] A flowering; florification. [ R.] Craig.

Flossy adjective Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

Flota noun [ Spanish See Flotilla .] A fleet; especially, a ...eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.

Flotage noun [ Old French flotage , French flottage , from flotter to float.]
1. The state of floating.

2. That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [ Written also floatage .]