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.

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

A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

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.

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.

To put forth blooms.

This plant flowers in June.

To decorate with pictures of flowers.

To reach a state of full development or achievement.

when flowr'd my youthful spring

It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

That beer did flower a little.

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

observations which have flowered off

Something that flows, such as a river.

Leaving the weavers’ village behind you, and crossing the sandy bed of the Vengavati or ‘Swift-flower,’ which, however, contained not a drop of water, you reach the ancient Jain temple.

Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”].