handflower
English
a Chiranthodendron pentadactylon handflower
an Erysimum cheiri handflower
Etymology
hand + flower. Chiranthodendron pentadactylon is so called because its flowers resemble five-fingered human hands.
a handflower (item of jewellery)
Noun
handflower (plural handflowers)
- (sometimes in the phrase ‘handflower tree’) A Mexican hand tree (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon).
- A wallflower (Erysimum cheiri, syn. Cheiranthus cheiri).
- An item of jewellery consisting of a bracelet linked to a ring by chains, lace or other elements which cross the back of the hand.
- 2010, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows, page 86:
- The only other piece I owned from the Aurita was a delicate handflower, with similar fine gold chains trailing from a ring on my middle finger and across the back of my hand to a bracelet of twisted gold.
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