Boutonnière: A flower may be worn.

The red hibiscus flower is traditionally worn by Tahitian women.

* The California native flower commonly called Milkmaids is named for its resemblance to the hat often worn by milkmaids.

* The Edelweiss flower was the symbol of Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS Gebirgsjäger, or mountain rangers, worn as a metal pin on the left side of the mountain cap, on the band of the service dress cap, and as a patch on the right sleeve.

It was the favorite flower of John F. Kennedy and was worn by his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. at his wedding in tribute to his father.

In Samoa, similar garlands fashioned of entire flowers, buds, seeds, nuts, plant fibers, leaves, ferns, seashells, or flower petals are called " asoa " or " ula ", while single flowers or clusters worn in the hair or on the ear are called sei.

* The flower worn on a young woman's clothing or wrist for the homecoming celebration or other formal occasions such as prom in some schools around the world.

According to The Provincial Emblems and Honours Act, which stipulates the design of the order's badges and ribbon and how they are worn, the main emblem of the order is a silver medallion in the form of a six pointed star — an abstract rendition of a western red lilly, the province's official flower.

A bronze King protea flower emblem was authorised, to be worn on the ribbon of the Africa Service Medal, for valuable services in connection with the Second World War.

This knot looks like Japanese apricot flower used for baby clothes, and norigae ( Korean traditional ornaments worn by women ).

The sequence opens in its original monochromatic format and rapidly morphs into full colour conveying the brightly-coloured " flower power " and " psychedelic " style clothing worn by The Beatles and their guests that was popular in 1967 during what was subsequently dubbed the " Summer of Love ".

Originally, a bouquet of flowers, flower bud, or a bow was worn on the corsage between the breasts, hence the name corsage for a cluster of flowers worn on the breast, waist or wrist.

Using two pegs and a rope, this procedure is traditionally used by gardeners to outline an elliptical flower bed ; thus it is called the gardener's ellipse.

The Preakness Stakes has been termed " The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans " because a blanket of Viking daisies, decorated to look like Black-eyed Susans ( Rudbeckia hirta, the state flower of Maryland ) is traditionally placed around the winner's neck.

Young couples traditionally search for the flower and many believe there is an increase in births nine months later.

The genus Populus has traditionally been divided into six sections on the basis of leaf and flower characters ; this classification is followed below.

Although not traditionally thought of as a flower, the unopened flower buds of the clove are also commonly used.

The shape of the " palms " resembles a lily, a flower which St. Casimir is traditionally associated with.

The tuberose is also used traditionally in Hawaii to create leis and was considered a funeral flower in Victorian times.

Sound holes, which traditionally take the shape of a stylized flower or star, are cut into the sounding board, allowing sound to project outward.

The web color called lavender is displayed at right — it matches the color of the very palest part of the lavender flower ; however, the more saturated color shown below as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by the average person as opposed to those who are web site designers.

There are several basic kanzashi styles that traditionally followed more complex hana ( flower ) and seasonal arrangements.

In the United States, Birkenstocks were first popular among flower children, a group traditionally associated with American liberalism ; in the early 1990s " Birks " enjoyed a surge of popularity among high school and college-aged Generation Xers comparable to the current ( 2000s ) popularity of flip-flops.

A blue rose is traditionally a flower of the genus Rosa ( family Rosaceae ) that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation and also the Morganus Clarke sunflower seed disposition, instead of the more common red or white variety.

On the day of his arrival in Paris, on May 1, 1895, just before his first concert, Félix Mayol was met by a female friend at the station, who gave him some lily-of-the-valley, a flower people traditionally exchange on May 1 in France.

Pepparkakor are crisp, thin gingersnap biscuits from Sweden, traditionally cut out in flower and heart shapes.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

The gardens themselves are open free of charge the year round, and the 192 permanent employes make sure that not a dead or wilted flower is ever seen indoors or out by any visitor.

They differ from other related families by often being pachycauline ( i. e. with a thickened trunk, usually wider at the base, which has a water storage function ), by usually having succulent leaves, and by possessing a trimerous flower with a superior ovary and seeds with an aryl.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

Pollination of one flower by the pollen of a different flower of the same plant ( geitonogamy ) is common.

There is a second bulb-shaped structure similarly reminiscent of a thalamus flower, which is represented by a cross with arms that are actually buds announcing the next flowering.

Broccoli was bred by selecting for large flower stalks.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

The name cranberry derives from " craneberry ", first named by early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane.

The seed is harvested by cutting the flower heads off the stalks when the seed is beginning to ripen.

* Iris flower data set-multivariate data set introduced by Ronald Fisher ( 1936 ).

* 1989: Ikebana Series, glass flower arrangements inspired by Ikebana

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

A Middle High German version was described as " Perhaps the flower of religious literary creativity in the German Middle Ages " by Heinrich Heine.

In some varieties the pink of the flower and red borders of leaves are replaced by a creamy yellow.

The " flowers " of Protea cynaroides are actually composite flower heads ( termed an inflorescence ) with a collection of flowers in the centre, surrounded by large colourful bracts.

Major commodities imported by Nepal from Argentina are Crude soybean oil, soybean oil, vegetable waxes, sun flower oil and maize.

* trochee – one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable ( e. g. picture, flower )

Those species that do not have the nodal ocrea can be identified by their possession of involucrate flower heads.

In Poland and Ukraine, a separate category ( nalyvka in Ukraine and nalewka in Poland ) is used for vodka-based spirits with fruit, root, flower, or herb extracts, which are often home-made or produced by small commercial distilleries.