WordNet
n. a handmade imitation of a blossom
Wikipedia
Artificial flowers are imitations of natural flowering plants used for commercial or residential decoration. They are sometimes made for scientific purposes (the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University, for example, illustrates the flora of the United States).
Materials used in their manufacture have included painted linen and shavings of stained horn in Egypt, gold and silver in ancient Rome, rice-paper in China, silkworm cocoons in Italy, colored feathers in South America, and wax and tinted shells. Modern techniques involve carved or formed soap, nylon netting stretched over wire frames, ground clay, and mass-produced injection plastic mouldings. Polyester has been the main material for manufacturing artificial flowers since the 1970s. Most artificial flowers in the market nowadays are made of polyester fabric.
Usage examples of "artificial flower".
Up at the top of a ladder, I must be twenty, twenty-five, thirty feet above the gallery floor while I pretend to catalog another artificial flower, my glasses pinching at the end of my nose.
You can't find a spot in her house to put another artificial flower.
Put the same feather with a ribbon and an artificial flower and everyone will think it's for a lady's hat.
An ancient, battered teddy bear, a Raggedy Ann doll, a couple of books, a guitar, a picture of a horse, an artificial flower.
Excuse me, would you mind speaking into this artificial flower I'm wearing in my lapel?
But it had been brought about by misdirected ingenuity, and she valued it only as she valued an artificial flower or a wax fruit.
Just down the hall there was a table with an artificial flower arrangement.