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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having double flowers, as a plant.
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Examples
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Lowe's, meanwhile, is promoting a double-flowered African daisy called "Double Ballerina."
The Garden Gloves Come Off Miguel Bustillo 2011
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I've gotten such spectacularly bad advice from otherwise highly-regarded nurseries for the record, pomegranate bushes do not come in male/female varieties, and fruit-producing types are not double-flowered that Schulz has earned my loyalty.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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This happens constantly in the double-flowered thorn, _Cratægus Oxyacantha_, in some blossoms of which the hollowed end of the peduncle still invests the base of the carpels, leaving the upper portions detached.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In Gloucestershire and some other parts, the double-flowered Yarrow is brought to a wedding by [619] bridesmaids as "seven years 'love."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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It is curious to observe in some of these flowers that the total number of parts is not greatly increased; thus, in some of the double-flowered _Leguminosæ_, such as _Ulex europæus_ and _Lotus corniculatus_, the petals are repeated once or twice, the stamens are petalodic, but reduced in number, while the carpels are usually entirely wanting.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In some of the double-flowered apples which have been previously alluded to, the flower-stalk is inordinately long when compared with the adjacent ones.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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There are also double-flowered varieties, in which the stamens in the centre are replaced by a tuft of narrow petals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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This view is also borne out by the double-flowered _Arbutus Unedo_, and also by what occurs in some double violets, wherein the anther exists in the guise of
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Among early summer flowers in open borders few are prettier than the double-flowered kinds of ranunculus of the herbaceous type.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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Thus, in a double-flowered apple recently examined, there was a sort of involucel of five perfect leaves, then five sepals surrounding an equal number of petals, numerous stamens, and five styles, but not a trace of an expanded axis, nor of any portion of the carpels, except the styles.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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