Meaning

A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction..

Definitions by Sense

1. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
2. (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.
3. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
4. The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
5. (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
6. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
7. The best examples or representatives of a group.
8. The best state of things; the prime.

Example Sentences

O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot / How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: / Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot / That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.

The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.

You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant.

We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.

He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.

The dogwoods are in flower this week.

[F]or ſtill, that my virgin-flower was yet uncrop'd never once enter'd into his head, and he would have thought it idling with time and words to have queſtion'd me upon it.

So was it asserted, that whenever a maiden was destined to die unmarried, as surely would the plant wither away and perish, and if a dughter of the Renseccos lost her honour or had given away her flower to an unworthy lover, then would the flower be blighted overnight.

Word Forms

• flowers
• flowre
• flow'r
• flowering
• flowered
• flow-er

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Use flower when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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