Usually means: Ornamental architectural motif, rounded flowers.
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  1. ball-flower: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball-flower: Wordnik
  3. ball-flower, ball flower: Wiktionary
  4. ball-flower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Ball-flower: Dictionary.com
  6. Ball flower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Ball-flower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. ball-flower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Ball-flower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ball-flower: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Ball-flower: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (architecture) An embellishment found on medieval buildings, consisting of a ball enclosed in the petals of a flower.

Similar:
ballflower, ball-flower, fleuron, flow'r, flower, flowre, bell, floriation, flour, floret, more...

Opposite:
spike flower, disc flower, ray flower

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Similar:
ballflower, ball-flower, fleuron, flow'r, flower, flowre, bell, floriation, flour, floret, more...

Opposite:
spike flower, disc flower, ray flower



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