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floral cup
  • n  the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
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floc
  • n  a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
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floccose chanterelle
  • n  a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet
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flocculation
  • n  the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
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floccule
  • n  a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
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floral envelope
  • n  collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils
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flock
  • n  a church congregation guided by a pastor
  • n  a group of birds
  • n  (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • n  an orderly crowd
  • n  a group of sheep or goats
  • v  move as a crowd or in a group
    Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
  • v  come together as in a cluster or flock
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flodden
  • n  a hill in Northumberland where the invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513
  • n  a battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed
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