flower

IPA: fɫˈaʊɝ

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.

Examples of "flower" in Sentences

I coach soccer and he is what we call a flower picker.
Dyed crass colors and sold in delis, the flower is almost universally scorned.
The celosia flower is a bright, rippled crest, as seen in this speciment in a Puerto Vallarta garden.
This flower is my entry for Flower Fest and the current alphabet is T. Image of thyme flower at the Bookmann.
Well, she took us to what she called the flower garden, because he wanted her to put a curse on a district attorney.
There are two more buds growing now, so it should be in flower for quite a while - this flower is heading into its 3d week now.
Thats because the flower is a parasite and lacks leaves, stems and roots features typically used to identify and group plants.
The stars are actually from some Christmas confetti I bought at Ikea a few years ago and the flower is a cut out from the ribbon I used on the front.
She ordered Dick up to work in the depressed-looking area before the house, which she called her flower garden, a task which Dick seemed perfectly willing to perform, by the way -- although his assistance would have been more than welcome at other work than tying scraggly rose bushes and protecting them from the winter already at hand.