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  1. Covered with flowers; flowery; blooming. Stinging bees in hottest summer's day, Led by their master to the flower'd fields. Shak., Tit. And., v. 1.
  2. Embellished with figures of flowers. Cato's long wig, flower'd gown, and lacquer'd chair. Pope. Imit. of Horace, II. i. 337. His morning costume was an ample dressing gown of gorgeously-flowered silk, and his morning was very apt to last all day. G. W. Curtis, Prue and I, p. 107.

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  • Plants hung from the ceiling and graced the shelves, and a red-flowered orchid was set near the register. —  Author Galley
  • He laughed mechanically and didn't look pleased, but ushered us into a small office jammed with a desk, two chairs, two antique and crooked metal file cabinets, piles of papers and files, and a thriving blue-flowered orchid on top of another file cabinet, this one wooden and glowing mellow with polish. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 2] - Dead Man Rising
  • Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The spikelets are 1-flowered, with a solitary flowering glume only. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The spikelets are 1-flowered, sessile or shortly pedicelled and jointed. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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