Meaning of કળી in English
- A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
- A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
- To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
- To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
- To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
- A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
- Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
- A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
- A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
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