A garden of herbs or flowers; a flower-garden; a flower-bed. Forms: erber(e, herber(e, eerbir, erbare, herbour. Obsolete.

A flower-bed laid out in a fanciful or intricate design; also, more generally, Any laid-out garden plot; a flower-knot. Now chiefly dialect.

Flower-beds elaborately cut into patterns of which the details are outlined in turf. Much in vogue about 1700. Obsolete.

A distinct section of a garden layout, composed of different plants or flowers; spec. a section of a carpet-bed.

a flower bed containing an assortment of plants.

a bed in which dwarf foliage-plants of different colours are arranged so as to form a pattern like that of a carpet; so carpet-bedding, carpet-garden.

Horticulture. A long flower bed the sides of which are not parallel.

Of or pertaining to a flower or flowers. floral clock (see quot. 1962). floral diagram: a diagram exhibiting the relative position of the parts in…