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FLOWERS AND TREES

Specialty Definition: FLOWERS AND TREES

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Flowers and Trees
(1) Dedicated to heathen gods:
The Cornel cherry-tree
To Apollo
The Cypress
To Pluto.
The Dittany
To The Moon.
The Laurel
To Apollo.
The Lily
To Juno.
The Maiden's-hair
To Pluto.
The Myrtle
To Venus.
The Narcissus
To Cerës.
The Oak
To Jupiter.
The Olive
To Minerva.
The Poppy
To Cerës.
The Vine
To Bacchus
(2) Dedicated to saints;
Canterbury Bells
To St. Augustine of England.
Crocus
To St. Valentine.
Crown Imperial
To Edward the Confessor.
Daisy
To St. Margaret.
Herb Christophe
To St. Christopher.
Lady's-smock
To The Virgin-Mary.
Rose
To Mary Magdalene.
St. John's-wort
To St. John.
St. Barnaby's Thistle
To St. Barnabas.
(3) National emblems:
Leek
Emblem of Wales.
Lily (Fleur-de-lys
" France.
Lily (Giglio Blanco
" Florence.
Lily White
" the Ghibelline badge.
Lily red
"badge of the Guelphs.
Linden
" Prussia.
Mignonette
" Saxony.
Pomegranate
" Spain.
Rose
" England.
Rose red
" Lancastrians
Rose white
" Yorkists.
Shamrock
" Ireland.
Thistle
" Scotland.
Violet
" Athens and Napoleon
Sugar Maple
" Canada.
(4) Symbols.
Box
Is a symbol of the resurrection.
Cedars
" the faithful.
Corn-ears
" the Holy Communion.
Dates
" the faithful.
Grapes
" this is my blood.
Holly
" the resurrection.
Ivy
" the resurrection.
Lily
" purity.
Olive
" peace.
Orange-blossom
" virginity.
Palm
" victory.
Rose
" incorruption.
Vine
" Christ our Life.
Yew
" death.
N.B. - The laurel, oak, olive, myrtle, rosemary, cypress, and amaranth are all funereal plants. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FLOWERS AND TREES

Specialty definitions using "FLOWERS AND TREES": Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions. (references)

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Modern Usage: FLOWERS AND TREES

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Movie/TV Titles

Flowers and Trees (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FLOWERS AND TREES

Language Translations for "FLOWERS AND TREES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

花木 (flowering trees). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かぼく (beautiful trees, flowering trees, houseboy, manservant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owersflay anday eestray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FLOWERS AND TREES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-l-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-w"

-4 letters: afterworlds, deflowerers, forestlands, forwardness, freeloaders, frowardness, newsdealers, newsreaders, relatedness, starflowers, transferees.

-5 letters: afterwords, afterworld, deflowerer, defrosters, delftwares, desolaters, dewaterers, easterners, elatedness, fenderless, forestland, foreswears, forewarned, fortressed, forwardest, freeloader, freestones, frontwards, newsdealer, newsreader, reasserted, reassorted, refastened, reflowered, reforested, reseasoned, serenaders, slanderers, slenderest, starflower, sternwards, stonewares, transferee, treenwares, westerners.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams 		5. Bibliography


  

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