A flower or cluster of flowers likened to a crown; esp. a verticil or whorl of flowers. In early use also: †the disc (disc, n. 7a) of a flower of a…

The bud of a flower; a compact or rounded flower-head or seed-vessel. (Cf. knapweed, n.) archaic.

Botany, etc. A cluster of short-stalked leaves or flowers growing from a common point, of stems growing from a common root, etc.; an umbel or…

= corona, n.1 7b; formerly, also, a whorl of small flowers as in Labiates; a flowering head of an umbelliferous or composite plant (cf. corona, n.1…

A cluster of flowers; cf. crown, n. 9a and coronet, n. 3. Also: the leafy head of a tree; cf. crown, n. 21b. Obsolete. rare.

With reference to plants and fungi. Any of various kinds of compound inflorescence, as the mass of closely packed flower buds in cauliflower or…

a flower head in seed; the (mature or dried) flowering part of a plant containing its seeds.

Horticulture. A compact cluster or head of flowers growing upon one stalk.

Botany. A close head of sessile flowers, typical of the family Asteraceae (Compositae).

Botany. = glomerule, n. 1.

Botany. A cluster or head of flowers (cf. quot. 1880).

Botany. = glomerule, n. 1a. Obsolete.

an inflorescence consisting of a close cluster of sessile florets.

The collective flower or blossom of a plant.