Wall-flower
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wall-flower is a noun meaning Alternative form of wallflower.
Meaning
Alternative form of wallflower.
Example Sentences
The wall-flower—the wall-flower! How beautiful it blooms' It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs;
The upper part of the wall was more gaudily attired, in all the variations of green moss, yellow and blue creepers, and the dark red of the wall-flower.
A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
Word Forms
- wall-flowers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wallflower, handflower, erysimum, gilli-flower, sulfurflower, monkey-flower.
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