Handflower

Origin

hand + flower. Chiranthodendron pentadactyllon is so called because its flowers resemble five-fingered human hands.

Full definition of handflower

Noun

1. (sometimes in the phrase ‘handflower tree’) A Mexican hand tree ().
2. A wallflower (, syn. ).
3. 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.