flower
IPA: fɫˈaʊɝ
noun
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
- The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- (obsolete) Flour.
- (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- (in the plural, obsolete) Menstrual discharges.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- Credit, recognition.
- (rare) Something that flows, such as a river.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.
verb
- (intransitive) To put forth blooms.
- (transitive) To decorate with pictures of flowers.
- (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
- (archaic, intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
- (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
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Examples of "flower" in Sentences
- I planted a flower in the glade.
- The flowers and plants withered and died.
- An entire stretch of the flower garden is uprooted.
- The flowering plants in the garden are nectar plants.
- Ragweed is not an attractive plant with pretty flowers.
- I have a natural garden with amphibia and lots of flowers.
- The adult lovebug feeds on the nectar of flowering plants.
- Flowers and plants decorate the area at the foot of the hill.
- Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest flowering plant in the world.
- The Bromeliales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants.
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