floral

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: flo=ral

CIDE DICTIONARY

floral, a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F. floral. See Flora.].

•  Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.  [1913 Webster]
•  Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.  Martyn.  [1913 Webster]

Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

floral, adj.
1 of flowers.
2 decorated with or depicting flowers.
3 of flora or floras.

Derivative

florally adv.

Etymology

L floralis or flos floris flower

THESAURUS

floral

blooming, bloomy, blossoming, efflorescent, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, flowery, garden, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, multiflorous, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, uniflorous

ROGET THESAURUS

floral

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.