| 单词 | flowerless |
| 例句 | So we were both flowerless as we went into the reception hall, but no one would have seen the flowers anyway, since the hall was so dark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He took it without a word, and while my mother pinned it to his lapel, I held my flowerless lapel out to my sister and smirked. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I was watching him walk down the path bordered by flowerless green bushes when the assembly bell rang. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Angelenos who adore the flamboyant flowers of jacarandas have been disappointed this spring, as stark branches remained flowerless against an often-gloomy sky. Why haven't all the jacarandas bloomed yet? When will purple reign again in L.A.? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z “A rolling stone may even collect moss here,” said the nursery, which sells three kinds of the resilient, flowerless plant that rehydrates quickly after drying and thrives in moist, shady areas. As peak moss season begins in WA, here’s what you need to know 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Researchers found that when deprived of pollen, bumblebees will nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants. Bumblebees' 'clever trick' fools plants into flower 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Bats can’t feed on these flowerless agave—a cruel irony, since bats are agave’s natural pollinators. First Bat Removed From U.S. Endangered Species List 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The Bryological Society of Japan, dedicated to the study of moss and other bryophytes—small rootless and flowerless plants—says membership is growing. In Japan, Moss Gathers New Fans 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z James’s coffin was white and decked with yellow and white carnations; Jessica’s was also white but it was flowerless. More Funerals Held in Newtown After Massacre 2012-12-19T02:52:08Z Each class of flowerless or cryptogamic plants requires special treatment for the herbarium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Most of these leaves are single, sterile and flowerless. City Room: Spring Time: Dance of the Bumblebees 2012-04-12T18:06:10Z A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A flowerless and fruitless tree, A dried-up stream, a mateless bird, They live, yet never living be, They die, their music all unheard. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Spore, spōr, n. the reproductive body in flowerless plants like the fern, analogous to the seeds of ordinary flowering plants, but containing no embryo: a germ, a seed, a source of being generally.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z I hear no more the swish of silks Along the marble walks; The autumn wind blows sharp and cold Among the flowerless stalks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Gymnosperms, and the still lower groups of flowerless ferns and mosses, are merely glanced at by amateur botanists. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z A wretched flowerless pinched bedding plant and a great yellow climbing Tea Rose are both cultivated things, but what a vast difference in their beauty! Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z Mix thy youth with thoughts like those— It were but to wither thee, But to graft the youthful rose On the old and flowerless tree. The Divine Vision and Other Poems 2011-09-02T02:00:18.933Z As religion is simply belief in the Divine goodness, morality must by necessity lead to religion, and is like a flowerless plant if it fail to do so. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z The apparently clear distinction between flowering and flowerless plants has been broken down by the series of gradations between the two exhibited by the Lycopodiaceae, Rhizocarpeae, and Gymnospermeae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The day before it was all bleak, and chilly, and flowerless there. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z These discoveries tend to show the probable existence in the Siluro-Cambrian of plants representing two of the three leading families of the higher cryptogams or flowerless plants, namely, the Club-mosses and the Mare’s-tails. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The higher cryptogams or flowerless plants are found to be at one in their structure and functions with the lower phsenogams or flowering plants. The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:36.420Z Writing of these flowerless beauties, I am tempted to exclaim again, "Happy the humble!" A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Without packing up, she had fled from the flowerless Golgotha of her wounded soul; and a second contemplation of it, and a second departure, and a renewal of the old tears, still awaited her. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Dinosaurs were shaded by flowerless plants like cycads and ferns. First Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem 2011-05-05T15:53:00Z Now and then a wasp sped by, intent upon its hunting, or a bee droned heavily along, anxious and worried, striving in a nearly flowerless world to gather the pollen that would feed the hive. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z But the Mosaic account of the third day’s work evidently describes flowering and seed-bearing plants, not flowerless and seedless algæ. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Alas, for the graves that are not found where willows grow within cemetery gates! for the flowerless graves we often weep over in our daily life! The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z All things are cold and white, and my soul flies only above fresh fields of flowerless snow. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame The first jump—when the vein density in fossil leaves of flowering plants first exceeded vein density in the leaves of flowerless plants—took place approximately one hundred million years ago. First Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem 2011-05-05T15:53:00Z They include ferns, mosses, seaweeds, &c., and are also called flowerless plants or cryptogams. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide We find, indeed but very few flowering plants, and these of a character somewhat intermediate between flowering and flowerless; such as the coniferæ and cycadeæ, including the pine tribe. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z He divided plants into sexual and asexual, the former being Phanerogamous or flowering, and the latter Cryptogamous or flowerless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" “Blind”—A term applied to plants which turn out flowerless. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Asexual, flowerless, or Acotyledonous plants; a term applied to half the vegetable kingdom in contradistinction to Phænogamic, sexual, or flowering plants. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Forth he went, as he was ordered, And upon the land he wandered, Bit the leaves from off the branches, Grass from off the flowerless meadows. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two But as to the flowerless plants, most of them seem to have been as perfect at first as they now are. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z He separated flowering from flowerless plants, and divided the former into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Many a dryish bank now flowerless might be made beautiful with this glorious shrub. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens A class of flowerless plants including all those that have no defined axis, stem, or leaves; as Lichens, Seaweeds, and Fungi. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They could hear the ripple of the waters, and the rustle of warm winds blowing through the flowerless and fern-like forests. The Golden Amazons of Venus The grave is crowded by other graves, and is neglected, unfenced, and flowerless. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 These form the great group which is often spoken of as "flowerless plants." The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 A garden that has been choked with weeds may remain flowerless for many succeeding years, but dig that garden, and sleeping flowers, not known to live within the memory of man, may spring to life. The Truth About Woman It is a cellular, flowerless plant, nourished by the mycelium which permeates the soil or other substances on which the fungus or mushroom grows. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth "The house does not stand at any cross-roads, and the place is as flowerless as it is possible to be!" A Nest of Spies Without, the season had bloomed into greater luxuriance,—within, the flowers now rarely came; and Faith's flowerless dress and belt and hair, said of themselves that Mr. Linden was away. Say and Seal, Volume II In general the flowerless plants reproduce by means of spores, like the mushroom and the ferns, while the flowering plants reproduce by means of seeds. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Commencing at the bottom of the scale, we find the Thallogens, or flowerless plants which lack proper stems and leaves,—a class which includes all the algæ. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The blue-bell and fox-glove were growing on every hand, and the heath throve in luxuriance, but, flowerless, seemed to miss the golden blossoms of the furze. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition They comprise one-fifth of the known flowerless plants. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) He wore a gay light red carnation, but the flowerless Woodville looked far more festive. The Twelfth Hour Plants may be divided into two great groups, the flowerless plants and flowering plants. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Next succeed the Acrogens, or flowerless plants that possess both stems and leaves,—such as the ferns and their allies. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed I looked in the direction of her pointing finger and saw a long line of flowerless plants, standing like sad and silent guests at the festival of spring. Aunt Jane of Kentucky Such a sunny, blue morning might have called him into the country, but he turned instead into the flowerless ways of the book stalls. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin The sad wind sighs Through flowerless woods, glowing towards their death, In Winter's cruel, poison-breathing breath. 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. At her feet the secrets of the world were written in wild flowers, the wild flowers of Sicily, which redeem the honor of the wellnigh flowerless land of Greece. The Proud Prince Nor, yet further, would a warm steaming atmosphere muffled in clouds have been unfavorable to a rank, flowerless vegetation like that of the Coal Measures. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The frost of night, the rime of dawn Bind flowerless trees and glades of lawn: Benumbed in apathetic chill Of icy chains they slumber still. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse O ears filled with the terror of the tune That travels to the bare and flowerless window High from thy roof moss-covered with neglect, O humble hut of the first bloom of time! Life Immovable First Part Thus, from the time of her father’s death, when she was eight years old, Anne’s life had been a flowerless, up-hill road, with nothing to look forward to at the end. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time A homeless, unsubstantial, immaterial bitterness ... a flowerless, echoless, roadless desert ... full of mirages. Debts of Honor They first appear amid the hard, dry, flowerless vegetation of the Coal Measures, and in genera suited to its character. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed In flowerless hours Never will the bank fail, With everlasting flowers On fragments of blue plates, to tell the tale. Last Poems Like a prayer-mat holy Are the patterned mosses Which the twin-flower crosses With her flowerless vine; In fragile melancholy The pallid ghost flowers hover As if to guard and cover The shadow of a shrine. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems 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. Three Margarets Lichen: a kind of flowerless plant that grows on stones, trees, boards, etc. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition How dark our sinful world would be-- A flowerless desert, dry and drear! Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing virtue still must plead, And the rough ore must find its honors in its use. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 The jubilant cry from the flowering thorn to the flowerless willow, "smite, smite, smite." Foe-Farrell For answer, she gave a scornful glance at the blackened plains, flowerless, grainless, grassless. The Way of the Wind There are many subjects which, from fine habit and foliage, even when flowerless, claim notice, and they, too, are described. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. At the grey soft edge of the fruitless surf A light flame sinks and springs; At the grey soft rim of the flowerless turf A low flame leaps and clings. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Five days to die in yet were autumn’s, ere The last leaf withered from his flowerless wreath. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems A trampled flower-bed, flowerless at this season, and a few broken window-panes, were all the evidence that the rioters had passed. Foe-Farrell The killing came to an end not because the glutton was satiated, but because my functions as provider were becoming troublesome; the dry month of August leaves but few insects in the flowerless garden. Social Life in the Insect World He paced up and down, heedless of where he trod, trampling the flowerless plants down into their black beds. The Helpmate Let air, earth, ocean weep for human kind; For human kind, deprived of Laura, seems A flowerless mead, a ring whose gem is lost. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch The flower-weighted branches swayed in the gentle breeze, the flowerless boughs remaining still, having nothing to weigh them down. The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal Mix thy youth with thoughts like those— It were but to wither thee, But to graft the youthful rose On the old and flowerless tree. The Nuts of Knowledge Lyrical Poems Old and New And the grass underfoot was not the grass of a lawn, evenly cut and flowerless; it was tall, so that it brushed the hem of her dress, and blossom-dotted. The Poor Little Rich Girl In a dim, still light we at last slowly descended out of the darker glade into a garden of grey terraces and flowerless walks. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance A short, steep terrace descended to a formally planted plot, now flowerless, enclosed by low privet hedges. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Life and love, the first worthless without the latter, barren, flowerless, shorn of fruitage, branded with the mark of the unattained. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains And is not the creation of the seed of a violet or rose something infinitely grander than the decking of a flowerless plant with newly created roses? The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 The latter are flowerless now, and look as they did before the springtime. Over Strand and Field The white and purple chrysanthemums bloomed against the flowerless rose-bushes, and the little gray Michaelmas daisy flourished where the dead carnations had spread their glories. Bebee There were heaths and mosses under the pines; but otherwise for a while the path was flowerless; and Elizabeth discontentedly remarked it. Lady Merton, Colonist But the desert of burnt-out ashes, Which only the lost have trod, Dark and barren and flowerless, Is lit by the Hand of God. The Lamp in the Desert In the aftermath, green but flowerless, a small flock of sheep were feeding—one with a long briar clinging to his wool. The Amateur Poacher Algæ, sea-weeds and plants of the same order under fresh water as well as salt; they are flowerless, stemless, and cellular throughout. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge A flowerless and fruitless tree, A dried up stream, a mateless bird, They live, yet never living be, They die, their music all unheard. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 The roses and lilies of spring were faded now, and instead of the music of his youth he heard only the sound of harsh, ungrateful voices, in the flowerless days of poverty and old age. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters The Seed ranch was dark at this time of the year, and flowerless. The Octopus : A story of California Flowering plants bear a seed containing an embryo, with usually one or two cotyledons, or seed-leaves; while in flowerless plants there is no seed and therefore no true cotyledon. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 To be shut in that Flemish garden for ever; her life enclosed within the straight lines of that long green alley leading to a dead wall, darkened over by flowerless ivy. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger These flowerless plants are of much simpler structure than those which have root, stem, leaf and flower, and produce plants of their own kind by means of their seeds. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation All the summer a honeysuckle outside watched his back window for him; now it was guarded within by a few flowerless plants. Malcolm Such was the vegetation of the carbonigenous era, composed of forms at the bottom of the botanical scale, flowerless, fruitless, but luxuriant and abundant beyond what the most favoured spots on earth can now shew. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation A heart that loves beyond the shallow word; A heart well loved beyond its flowerless worth: One who asks God to answer the prayer heard; One from the dust returning to the earth. Along the Shore But my sister Rachel abides before the mirror, flowerless; contented with her beautiful eyes. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 The pretty olive-green of the bark, and the greyish-green of the leathery leaves, render the shrub one of interest even in a flowerless state. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Of the Sigillariæ we cannot say as much with certainty, for botanists are not agreed as to what low order of flowerless plants they belong. Town Geology Petals delicately white in a whorl of rays—light that had started radiating from a centre and become fixed—shining among the flowerless green. The Open Air Again, in 1859, there appeared to be a no less sharp separation between the two great groups of flowering and flowerless plants. Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 She leaned against the old flowerless rosebush, almost in its branches. The Story of a Child No; I will not despair while thy hand points me on, Though flowerless and thorny the path where I roam. Poems of the Heart and Home Or compare the light legato movement of "Bird of the wilderness, blithesome and cumberless," with the heavy staccato movement of "Waste endless and boundless and flowerless." The Principles of Aesthetics I looked wistfully at the leafless, flowerless garden, where I had first recognized my Eve. A Day of Fate The three visited it and found, on its banks, the first green stuff they had seen; a tiny, flowerless salt grass, very scarce. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life He moved almost alone between the prim flowerless grass-plots, the white porches, the protrusion of irrelevant shingled gables, which stamped the empty street as part of an American college town. The Hermit and the Wild Woman Paul, who had been sauntering between flowerless beds with his companion, stood stock still. The Fortunate Youth It is important to note that some of these gigantic lycopods, which are classed with the CRYPTOGAMS, or flowerless plants, had pith and medullary rays dividing their cylinders into woody wedges. The Elements of Geology She held in both hands leafy, flowerless plants, Some she had fastened in her twisted hair, Stuck others in her girdle, and from all Issued a racy odor, pungent-sweet, The living soul of Spring. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations I have brought to the hive, of which thou art queen, a bee I found lost on a flowerless road. Thais But on the other hand this band of sheep had left a broad bare swath, weedless, grassless, flowerless, in their wake. To the Last Man But when Maudlin rode by later she saw, not a cloud in flower, but a flowerless tree, dressed with the new-puffed whiteness of wild clematis, its silver-green tendrils shining through their own mist. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard A fungus is a cellular flowerless plant, fructifying solely by spores, by which it is propagated, and the methods of attachment of which are singularly various and beautiful. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. The Toys of Peace, and other papers For a house Lacking a host is but an empty thing And void of honour; a cup without its wine, A scabbard without steel to keep it straight, A flowerless garden widowed of the sun. La Sainte Courtisane Enough, enough that Eros laughed upon that flowerless mead. Charmides and Other Poems |
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