Ornamental definitions

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Of, relating to, or serving as an ornament or decoration.
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Something that serves as ornamentation, especially a plant grown for its beauty.
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Serving as or pertaining to an ornament; decorative.
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Something ornamental; specif., a plant or shrub grown for its decorative effect.
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Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.

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An ornamental plant.
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Sentence Examples

  • As garden plants the aconites are very ornamental, hardy perennials.

  • It is well engraved in Richardson's Studies of Ornamental Design.

  • Many of the ornamental processes which we admire in Venetian glass were already in use in this century.

  • This is printed on an ornamental title-page.

  • The cypress, as the olive, is found everywhere in the dry hollows and high eastern slopes of Corfu, of the scenery of which it is characteristic. As an ornamental tree in Britain the cypress is useful to break the outline formed by roundheaded low shrubs and trees.

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