Definition of Flower head

1. Noun. A shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae.

Generic synonyms: Inflorescence
Terms within: Ray Floret, Ray Flower

Definition of Flower head

1. Noun. (botany) A compact cluster of florets having the appearance of a single flower (as in the daisy family) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flower Head

flower beds
flower box
flower boxes
flower bud
flower chain
flower child
flower children
flower cluster
flower deluce
flower flies
flower fly
flower garden
flower gardening
flower girl
flower girls
flower head
flower heads
flower people
flower petal
flower petals
flower power
flower stalk
flower sticks
flower store
flowerage
flowerages
flowerbed
flowerbeds
flowerbox
flowerboxes

Literary usage of Flower head

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Lol>elia, Flowering Stem of Cardinal-Flower, Flower of Great Lobelia, Flowering Stem of Scabious, Flower-head of Sunflower, Flowers in Four Stages Great ..."

2. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"As the flower-head is in process of ripening moist weather affects the pappus hairs in such a way that the whole inflorescence closes up and is thus kept ..."

3. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"that the spiny bracts at the tip of the flower-head are longer and more awesome than those at the sides; if we pass our hands down over the flower-head we ..."

4. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"Flower-head. 6. Involucre, c. Receptacle and involucre, d. Longitudinal section of receptacle, with disk florets, e. Rny floret. /. Disk floret, g. ..."

5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1864)
"372 flowers less, or I had better say it has lost one flower-head from each ... An ordinary flower-head of males and females, with the involucral leaves ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"... we witness the same composite structure of the flower-head; but here, the outermost florets (2 oa) of the "head" have begun to develope into petal-like ..."

7. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1896)
"Any one who will observe a flower-head burying itself, will be convinced that the ... After a flower-head has penetrated the ground to a small depth, ..."

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