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At the first glance a list like this reads as if flowers abounded, but the reverse is the impression to those who frequent the place It is really a very short list, and as of course all of these do not appear at once there really is rather a scarcity of wild flowers, so far at least as variety goes.

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  1. adjective Turned backward in position, direction, or order.
  2. adjective Having the back showing or in view of the observer.
  3. adjective Moving, acting, or organized in a manner contrary to the usual.
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forward ·  misfortune ·  multiple ·  fast ·  disaster ·  emergency ·  horizontal ·  defeat ·  reversal ·  opposite ·  negative ·  failure

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reverse:   reversed ·  reversing ·  reverses
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  1. Middle English revers, from Old French, from Latin reversus, past participle of revertere, to turn back; see revert.

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  1. from Middle English reversen, from Old French reverser, French reverser, reverse, = Provencal reversar = Spanish reversar, revesar, revezar, vomit, = Portuguese revessar, alternate, = Italian riversare, upset, pour out, from Late Latin reversare, turn about, turn back, freq. of Latin revertere, turn back, revert: see revert.
  2. from Middle English reverse, revers, from Old French revers, reverse, cross (as a noun revers, a back blow), = Provencal revers = Spanish Portuguese reverso = Italian riverso, from Latin reversus, turned back, reversed, past participle of revertere, turn back, reverse: see revert.
 

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