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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.
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
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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