Flower

Quick meaning: Flower is a noun meaning A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

Meaning

A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The dogwoods are in flower this week.

We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.

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

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

Word Forms

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

Synonyms for flower

Depending on context, synonyms include head, pseudanthium, cream, prime, bloom, blossom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blossom, bloom, flush, efflorescence, peak, heyday.

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