dictionary definitions for "floral"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  floral
      adj 1: resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers; "an unusual
             floral design" [syn: flowered]
      2: relating to or associated with flowers; "floral organs"
      3: of or relating to the plant life in a particular region;
         "characteristic alpine floral elements"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Floral \Flo"ral\, a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F.
     floral. See Flora.]
     1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as,
        floral games, wreaths.
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     2. (Bot.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral
        bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. --Martyn.
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     Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the
        other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.
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