| defloration | (noun) the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (noun) an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something | - |
| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| flora | (noun) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | Synonyms: plant, plant life |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, vegetation |
| floral | (adjective) of or relating to the plant life in a particular region | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with flowers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: flowered |
| florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| floret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floweret |
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| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| florid | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant |
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| (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine |
| floridity | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridness, showiness |
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| floridly | (adverb) in a florid manner | - |
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| floridness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, showiness |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| florin | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, guilder, gulden |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: guilder, gulden |
| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
| microflora | (noun) microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora | - |
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| multiflora | (noun) vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock | Synonyms: baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora |
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