Crossword-Solution: RINGENT 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red.

Flower of a Campanula or Harebell, with a campanulate or bell-shaped corolla; 255, of a Phlox, with salver-shaped corolla; 256, of Dead Nettle (Lamium), with labiate _ringent_ (or gaping) corolla; 257, of Snapdragon, with labiate _personate_ corolla; 258, of Toad-Flax, with a similar corolla spurred at the base.] _Funnel-shaped_, or _Funnelform_; gradually spreading at the summit of a tube which is narrow below, in the shape of a funnel or tunnel, as in the corolla of the common Morning Glory (Fig.

Two forms of the labiate corolla have been designated, viz.:-- _Ringent_ or _Gaping_, when the orifice is wide open, as in Fig.

When the upper lip of a labiate corolla is much arched, and the lips separated by a distinct gap, it is called _ringent_ (fig.

Corolla tubular, more or less 2-lipped, ringent, persistent and withering; upper lip entire or 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed.