flower-bearing

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have isolated the ramosa1 gene and shown how it controls the arrangement of flower-bearing branches in corn, related cereal crops, and ornamental grasses.

Worldbuilding in the Ketchup Mine 2005

The nation's new heroes, working without a contract, are mobbed by flower-bearing fans offering thanks and tears.

The Day That Changed America 2007

A bride's beautiful white gown and her flock of flower-bearing attendants may constitute nothing more than an enduring female attraction to the sort of thing that would make Betty Friedan lean her old gray head against the keyboard and weep.

The Wedding Merchants 2001

A bride's beautiful white gown and her flock of flower-bearing attendants may constitute nothing more than an enduring female attraction to the sort of thing that would make Betty Friedan lean her old gray head against the keyboard and weep.

The Wedding Merchants 2001

Frequent coppicing or pollarding are not conducive to good flowering because they severely restrict the growth of lateral (flower-bearing) branches.

10 Next Steps 1992

The _fifth_, _sixth_ and _seventh glumes_ are obovate-cuneate, 7 - to 9-nerved, paleate, flower-bearing and 3-lobed, the side lobes are acuminate and the central lobe is bifid and dorsally awned; palea is ovate-acute, 2-nerved and ciliolate.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

If there are six glumes, the _fourth_ bears stamens and the ovary, the _fifth_ and _sixth glumes_ are empty, and in spikelets of seven glumes, the third, fourth, and the fifth glumes are flower-bearing and contain grains, and the remaining two glumes are empty.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

As usual the first two glumes are empty and the remaining two are flower-bearing glumes.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

And hath also the richest and most complete collection of all the great variety of flower-bearing trees and shrubs in the kingdom.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

The yellow jonquils, too, are swelling, and the geraniums are throwing out their scarlet flame across wide stretches of greensward, while the violets are nodding at the feet of the gigantic magnolias, whose huge yellowish-gray buds will soon burst into white beauty, crowning this noblest of flower-bearing trees.

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various