a flower - a) the reproductive organ in a plant containing one or more pistils or stamens or both, and usu. a corolla and calyx, and from which the fruit or seed develops; b) such an organ when brightly coloured and conspicuous; a blossom, a bloom.

any of the parts of the corolla of a flower; a petal.

a small juicy pulp as found in some edible fruits fruits as orange, lime etc.

the periodic discharge from the womb of a woman; the menses.

the grass Saccharum spontaneum of Poaceae family, that resembles sugar-cane; thatch grass.

religious defilement caused by menses.

a Kannaḍa meter having six lines of which third and sixth have three groups of five units each followed by a long one and the rest have two groups of five units each.

a Vedic meter having four lines each having eleven syllables.

the edible plant-structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant; a fruit.

a disease of the eye.

a usu. hereditary disorder with a tendency to bleed severely from even a slight injury, through the failure of the blood to clot normally; haemophilia.

a thick, sweet, syrupy substance that bees make as food from the nectar of flowers and store in honeycombs; honey.

= ಕ್ಷಮೆ.

bearing or enduring pain, trouble, etc. without complaining or losing self-control; calmly tolerating delay, confusion, inefficiency, etc.

having enough power, skill, talent, etc. to do something.

favourable; conducive.

a competent, able man.

any group of persons or things related by having something in common; kind; class; sort.

of a flower; being like or resembling a flower.

having flowers in abundance.

made of a flower or flowers.

the seed bearing part of a plant, brightly coloured and conspicuous; a blossom; a boom; a flower.

sugary fluid produced by plants to attract pollinating insects to their flowers and made into honey by bees; the nectar of flowers.

scorched; burnt; charred; singed.

dried up (as caused by lack of water).

that is abnormally thin; wasted; emaciated.

the quality or fact of being abnormally thin; thinness.

a spell of continuous dry weather; prolonged absence of rain; famine.

prolonged lack of something.

(dance.) a drawing the cheeks in (to depict emancipated body, hunger, etc.)

ಕ್ಷಾಮ ಡಾಮರ kṣāma ḍāmara (pl.) drought situation and consequent riot, affray etc.; ಕ್ಷಾಮ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ನಾಮ ಮಾತ್ರ ಲಾಭ kṣāma kālakke nāma mātra lābha (prov.) a hypocritical saying of a businessman that he would forego his business interest during drought time.

to strike, beat; to give a glow.

to wash (clothes) by slightly beating.

to shrink; to stoop.