flower.
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
Meaning & usage
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
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.
We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.
The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.
Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
The dogwoods are in flower this week.
The vulva, especially the labia majora.
The best examples or representatives of a group.
The best state of things; the prime.
She was in the flower of her life.
Flour.
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
the flowers of sulphur
A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
flowers of rhetoric
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
Menstrual discharges.
A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
Credit, recognition.
to give someone his flowers; to get one's flowers
Cannabis.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
To put forth blooms.
This plant flowers in June.
To decorate with pictures of flowers.
To reach a state of full development or achievement.
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
Something that flows, such as a river.
Where this word comes from
From flow + -er.
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