A flowerless plant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
= Lichen =: a kind of flowerless plant that grows on stones, trees, boards, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition] Reference
The long, lone, flowerless autumn -- when the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Though flowerless and thorny the path where I roam. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Nears his black shallop to the flowerless strand. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
They comprise one-fifth of the known flowerless plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
I maeded u a flowerless choklit torte dat melts in ur mouff. From Wordnik.com. [has you ever danced - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The ivies grew back and the flowerless plants that liked shade. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
In the plant world flowerless plants precede the flowering ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Down to the faint and flowerless land, the sick and sunless day. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
After two flowerless years, the iris collection was very nearly composted. From Wordnik.com. [Blessed Rain « Fairegarden] Reference
And in that flowerless arctic Eden, out of its bounteous compassion, the Great. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
A group of flowerless plants embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, etc. PUBESCENT. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The abundant flowerless vegetation of the coal formation of the preceding epoch dwindles away. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The Period of Old Life Forms: Forests of flowerless trees; but pines grew in the coal measures. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
For answer, she gave a scornful glance at the blackened plains, flowerless, grainless, grassless. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
In the field beyond the garden, there were long, flowerless green rows where they had picked the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [So Close and No Closer]
Zingiberaceae, but so few and scattered as to be nothing amid the mass of green and flowerless vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The afternoon had turned drizzly, and the dismal character of that flowerless quarter was more than ever apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
He was crowned with a flowerless wreath of greenthorn and juniper, meaning solace in adversity, offering protection. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
There are many subjects which, from fine habit and foliage, even when flowerless, claim notice, and they, too, are described. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
DESSERT: Sprinkle pomegranate seeds over cheesecake or flowerless chocolate cake -- anywhere you might use raspberries in summer. From Wordnik.com. [Tip Sheet] Reference
There has never been such a growth of flowerless plants as in the Paleozoic, and flowering plants probably culminated in the Miocene. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Microbes and insects that first evolved in the Devonian will descend in force, and soon the rose garden is a flowerless patch of thorns. From Wordnik.com. [On this Earth Day, a question: Take care of the garden or let it grow wild?] Reference
To flowerless fields, as sleep to slackening pain. From Wordnik.com. [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference
Through flowerless woods, glowing towards their death. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.] Reference
To be buried in flowerless graves, without incense or prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Sandhya Songs of Twilight] Reference
The Seed ranch was dark at this time of the year, and flowerless. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
Plants may be divided into two great groups, the flowerless plants and flowering plants. From Wordnik.com. [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference
Anne's life had been a flowerless, up-hill road, with nothing to look forward to at the end. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
I have brought to the hive, of which thou art queen, a bee I found lost on a flowerless road. From Wordnik.com. [Thais] Reference
How stunted are the trees (all except the weeds) here! how flowerless the hedges! how empty of life, grace, detail the country!. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
In plants it is the ovule and the pollen-grain, as in the flowering plants, or the ovule and the antherozooid, as in the flowerless. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Such a sunny, blue morning might have called him into the country, but he turned instead into the flowerless ways of the book stalls. From Wordnik.com. [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference
Peggy fished again, but this time in vain; and finally she was obliged to give it up, and go off flowerless in search of her strawberries. From Wordnik.com. [Three Margarets] Reference
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