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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowers": Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, beauties, canon, catamenia, catamenial discharge, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected works, collection, compilation, complete works, courses, cuttings, delectus, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, fragments, garden, garland, gleanings, menses, menstrual discharge, menstruation, miscellanea, miscellany, monthlies, omnibus, period, periods, photograph album, quotation book, scrapbook, symposium, that time, the curse
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Flowers Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine. It has been calculated that in Western Syria and Palestine from two thousand to two thousand five hundred plants are found, of which about five hundred probably are British wild-flowers. Their beauty is often alluded to (Cant. 2:12; Matt. 6:28). They are referred to as affording an emblem of the transitory nature of human life (Job 14:2; Ps. 103:15; Isa. 28:1; 40:6; James 1:10). Gardens containing flowers and fragrant herbs are spoken of (Cant. 4:16; 6:2).
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