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Answer for the clue "Floral growth ", 7 letters:
rosebud

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a rosebud mouth (= a small red attractive mouth ) ▪ The girl had huge brown eyes and a rosebud mouth. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN mouth ▪ Corrie had a short, snub nose and rosebud mouth , and her eyes were a smoky ...

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Rosebud is a 1975 film directed by Otto Preminger , and starring Peter O'Toole , Richard Attenborough , and Peter Lawford . The script was by Otto's son, Erik Lee Preminger , based on the novel by Joan Hemingway and . Originally the film was set to star ...

Usage examples of rosebud.

Cecilia and Marina were two sweet rosebuds, which, to bloom in all their beauty, required only the inspiration of love, and they would certainly have had the preference over Bellino if I had seen in him only the miserable outcast of mankind, or rather the pitiful victim of sacerdotal cruelty, for, in spite of their youth, the two amiable girls offered on their dawning bosom the precious image of womanhood.

He could never be sure whether a rosebud was intended to lie in that negligent fashion on the marble surface of a table or whether it had been inadvertently dislodged from its fellows in the majolica bowl by his own clumsy hand.

Sometimes we find a tiny sachet rosebud sewed to the lining, or a little lace-trimmed pocket for the veil.

She was a short, compact wman with solid and a small determined rosebud mouth.

My life arranged before you In scrolls of leaves, rosebuds, violets, ivy, Clustered or wreathed on plate and cup and platter .

Somewhere, Brooke decided, there had to be an overheated cloning machine given over to producing tight, almost jet-black curls, rosebud mouths and big, luminous blue eyes with lashes any grown woman would kill for.

The silk rosebuds in her hair were perfect, the rosetted dancing slippers pretty and comfortable.

Near that chaste heart they seemed to me Types of far fairer flowers to be -- The rosebuds of a human tree!

Creek, the Haybox Fight, Washita, Slim Buttes, Palo Duro Canyon, Rosebud, Bear Creek, Wounded Knee.

Is that brown worm on your rosebuds really a threat to the perfect flower you hoped to get, or is it a hoverfly larva hunting down the rose aphids alighting from the sky?

That small brown or green worm on your rosebud may well be a syrphid larva hunting for aphids, so take care.

I was beginning to feel somewhat confident when Cheryl Anne swept through the door and stopped to survey the scene, her mouth a tight red rosebud and her hands clenched at her sides.

She was charming, a bird nestling in cottonwool, a rosebud fallen amid snow.

She revealed the silk rosebuds embroidered on her garters, her white thighs.

Cecilia and Marina were two sweet rosebuds, which, to bloom in all their beauty, required only the inspiration of love, and they would certainly have had the preference over Bellino if I had seen in him only the miserable outcast of mankind, or rather the pitiful victim of sacerdotal cruelty, for, in spite of their youth, the two amiable girls offered on their dawning bosom the precious image of womanhood.