A whorl of bracts surrounding a single floweror a flower-head.
The peduncle is simple, bearing a single flower, as in primrose; or branched, as in London-pride.
With Hibiscus, Kolreuter found that sixty grains were necessary to fertilise all the ovules of a flower, and he calculated that 4863 grains were produced by a single flower, or eighty-one times too many.
Mr. Cheeseman also remarks, that as certain Orchids in New Zealand which require insect-aid for their fertilisation bear only a single flower, distinct plants cannot fail to intercross.
In Pots 1 and 2 the self-fertilised plants did not produce a single flower-stem; in Pot 4 only one; and in Pot 3 six, of which the three tallest were measured.
Kerner thinks that it is for this object that the Australian Villarsia parnassifolia produces daily only a single flower.
A circle or collection of bracts surrounding a flower cluster or head, or a single flower.
All the hyacinths and tulips stood in two long rows down the room, not a single flower remained in the window, and the flower-pots were all empty.
And when the professor walks into his garden, there will not be a single flower left.
I was in the garden out there yesterday with my mother," said Ida, "but all the leaves were off the trees, and there was not a single flower left.
In the axil of each lemma, and usually concealed by it, is a smaller bract, the palea, and between the lemma and the palea is a single flower.
B, a single flower, with the upper leaves of the perianth turned back to show the column (x).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single flower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
