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flower
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bunch of flowers/roses/daffodils etc
▪ I picked a bunch of flowers from the garden.
a flower/rose garden (=a garden planted with flowers/roses)
▪ The cottage was surrounded by a flower garden.
a plant flowers
▪ The plants are flowering earlier this year.
artificial flowers
▪ a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers
fish/fruit and vegetable/flower etc market
▪ There’s a good antiques market here on Sundays.
flower arranging
flower child
flower girl
flower power
flower/sunflower/tomato etc seeds
▪ I bought a packet of poppy seeds.
wild flowers
▪ a field full of wild flowers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ It was rather hard to understand, though: Dear Mr Hughes, Thank you for the beautiful flowers.
▪ I get beautiful vines and flowers, but eventually the flowers fall off and the stems turn brown and dry up.
▪ The big church was filled with baskets of beautiful flowers and an organ played soft music.
▪ The wall of thorns suddenly turns into a wall of big, beautiful flowers, which opens to let the prince enter.
▪ Love must be the most beautiful flower than can be cultivated in transcendent garden of the mind.
▪ The bride and Katie carried beautiful preserved flowers from Catkins.
▪ Sow the biennial honesty-Lunaria annua-in situ to produce beautiful flowers next spring.
▪ I find hellebores among the most beautiful flowers of all, so try to grow as many as possible.
blue
▪ A delicate looking plant with much branched slender stems and dainty powder blue flowers.
▪ Her feet are bare and she is wearing no coat, only a short-sleeved dress with tiny sprigs of blue flowers.
▪ In the very attractive all-white luncheon room, vases of beautiful red, white, and blue flowers adorned every luncheon table.
▪ There was a chest-of-drawers painted pale blue with flowers cut from seed-packets glued on to it for decoration.
▪ Planted near deep blue flowers or purple foliage the effect is absolutely ravishing.
▪ Three or four years old, a mere toddler, a boy with golden curls gathering blue flowers.
▪ It was white with blue flowers on it.
▪ The pale blue flowers stand out like jewels against dark, bare soil.
bright
▪ If you want to use some very bright red flowers choose a subtle, gentle background with which they can blend.
▪ She made the fields once more rich with abundant fruit and the whole world bright with flowers and green leaves.
▪ They will not help the reader to grow brighter flowers or bigger cabbages.
▪ The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances.
▪ The leaves have a unique smell midway between eucalyptus and mint. Bright purple flowers.
▪ Some people came walking along, carrying bright flowers and bags of shopping.
▪ The planter means you can conceal the cooler with bright flowers throughout the seasons.
▪ Hot sun, bright flowers and green fields got into my blood.
dried
▪ We sell dried flowers and herbs by the bunch and a large range of baskets.
▪ In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers.
▪ Cloves are dried flower buds and are usually sold whole.
▪ Here at the Moredon Community Gardening Centre, there are regular classes on anything from hanging baskets to dried flower arranging.
▪ For a more permanent display use dried flowers.
▪ Not a table with dried flowers.
▪ The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers.
▪ When the magazine folded she specialised in dried flowers which had the virtue of not being able to shriek back.
fresh
▪ Cissy Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, had fresh flowers brought aboard at stopping places along the way.
▪ Minimalist in beige, black and cement with big arrangements of fresh flowers.&038;.
▪ There are always fresh flowers on show.
▪ Even if you only need new shoe heels and fresh flowers, this would be the place.
▪ She insisted on fresh flowers every day placed next to a photograph of Stephen and herself at the opening night of Crystal Springs.
▪ There are always fresh flowers, as if something there refuses to die.
▪ The sweets in particular are quite spectacular, and are sometimes decorated with fresh flowers.
▪ There was no headstone, but it was neatly tended and there were fresh flowers in a stone jar.
large
▪ For instance, a few petals from a large flower can be remade into one that is much smaller.
▪ Eventually the banana will send out a large pink flower.
▪ She pretended she was making her own flower garden, and picked large red flowers to push into the ground.
▪ The new varieties Snow Crystals and Creamery have a compact habit and much larger flowers than the traditional varieties.
▪ There was a knock on the door and a member of the Prince's staff appeared with a large bouquet of flowers.
▪ Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design, I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers.
▪ As a farewell gift Jackie Tinley then presented a large bouquet of flowers.
▪ A pink pillar-box hat was perched precariously on her head, and pinned to its side was a large artificial purple flower.
pink
▪ The bedroom is wallpapered, both on walls and ceiling, with a delicate tiny pink flower motif on a white background.
▪ In the spring these plants would unfurl tiny pink bell-like flowers that attract bees.
▪ Centaury got its name from the centaur, which cured itself from a poisoned dart with this pink flower.
▪ There are horticultural varieties with pink or white flowers.
▪ All three are quite similar with a pastel range of pink and purple flowers as well as white and cream.
▪ The vibrant village is a place where some residents plant rows of red and pink flowers around their squat concrete houses.
▪ The church was full of pink flowers - her favourite colour.
▪ Eventually the banana will send out a large pink flower.
pressed
▪ A pressed flower, Philip had said.
▪ This chapter therefore describes the techniques you will need to follow to obtain perfect pressed flowers.
▪ Aunt Margaret, frail as a pressed flower, seemed too cowed by his presence even to look at him.
▪ Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark.
▪ For example, the photograph on the previous page shows how pressed flower designs can be used to decorate photograph frames.
▪ There are so many possibilities for pressed flowers that I hope you find it hard to contain your enthusiasm!
▪ You should then decide which area of parcel is going to be decorated with the pressed flowers and foliage.
▪ Apart from the ideas shown in this chapter, there are several other ways of incorporating pressed flowers into hobbies.
red
▪ If you want to use some very bright red flowers choose a subtle, gentle background with which they can blend.
▪ A dripping sky-blue shutter or the red flowers of a flame-of-the-forest tree were images exploding on the vision after blindness.
▪ In this he recollected lying in bed as a child and counting the enormous red flowers in the wallpaper.
▪ The vibrant village is a place where some residents plant rows of red and pink flowers around their squat concrete houses.
▪ She pretended she was making her own flower garden, and picked large red flowers to push into the ground.
▪ Finally, a perfectly preserved plant stem with an array of small red flowers at its tip.
▪ Green foliage and spires of vivid red flowers.
▪ She kneels for a red flower, picks it, later will press it carefully between the pages of a book.
small
▪ In addition, you must be able to choose small flowers and small parts of flowers that can be used to good effect.
▪ It produces small, fragrant flowers that cluster on older stems.
▪ They were black painted with small flowers on the buckle.
▪ Each plant mounds up 12 inches, producing lavish serrated foliage and small white flowers.
▪ It was a beautiful dress, white seersucker dotted with small mauve flowers.
▪ They're tough plants, handsome, with varied textures and nice small flowers.
tiny
▪ You can even remove individual tiny flowers for use in miniature work.
▪ In the spring these plants would unfurl tiny pink bell-like flowers that attract bees.
▪ The bedroom is wallpapered, both on walls and ceiling, with a delicate tiny pink flower motif on a white background.
▪ Sponge print: Cut tiny hearts, flowers or other shapes from a sponge.
▪ Wine glasses will look effective arranged down a long dinner table, alternating single large blooms with groups of tiny flowers.
▪ The small brass starburst in the center of the face seems somewhat ornamental, like a tiny flower with eight petals.
▪ I can remember a party dress that I loved - a white one with bright, tiny flowers on and lace trimming.
▪ It throws up sprays of tiny, buttercup-yellow flowers in summer.
white
▪ Each bird disposed itself on the sea like a great white flower.
▪ There are horticultural varieties with pink or white flowers.
▪ In spring its flesh was clothed in white flowers.
▪ Each plant mounds up 12 inches, producing lavish serrated foliage and small white flowers.
▪ Another dwarf lily, with white flowers with yellow centres.
▪ In early spring, they are adorned with fine panicles of white flowers, often deliciously fragrant.
▪ From the centre of the rosette sprang a single five-inch stalk with a small spike of closed white flowers at its end.
▪ It has white flowers with a purple spot.
wild
▪ The slope was covered with white and yellow wild flowers, and near to the house was a cluster of small trees.
▪ We're hoping, there's just a chance, she left her car to pick wild flowers.
▪ In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower.
▪ A gardener for 62 years, Mr. Wakeford on this occasion turned his enthusiasm to wild flowers.
▪ Only a few thousand of the 250,000 different varieties of wild flowers have been named, he explained.
▪ A field of wild flowers or an uncluttered soft, sandy beach with plenty of room - even in high season.
▪ She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers.
▪ In 1755, at the age of six, Jane Weller was already collecting wild flowers.
yellow
▪ The creamy yellow flowers grew in profusion on the slopes of an old railway embankment.
▪ The branching inflorescence bears white or yellow flowers.
▪ The slope was covered with white and yellow wild flowers, and near to the house was a cluster of small trees.
▪ Silver foliage, yellow button flowers and a smell of chicken tikka.
▪ On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand.
▪ Similar in habit to the true waterlily, but with smaller yellow flowers.
▪ And there are flowers in their hair and loose yellow flowers strewn about under their bare feet on the ground.
▪ But whether the parent with the yellow flowers supplies the egg or the pollen makes not the slightest difference.
■ NOUN
arrangement
▪ The next day, she was in church at Farnham Road, doing flower arrangements for a wedding.
▪ Some flower arrangements, valued at more than $ 100, were placed near the rock.
▪ Alexander demonstrates simple flower arrangements for table centerpieces, holiday centerpieces and silk flowers.
▪ The flower arrangement from the Society is beautiful and will give pleasure and remembrance for a long time.
▪ Within the deceptively small establishment are numerous and unique fresh flower arrangements, from small desktop bouquets to massive special occasion arrangements.
▪ Why not use some of them to make a lovely flower arrangement.
▪ I delivered plastic flower arrangements to pubs.
bed
▪ The apartments are idyllically set amongst lovely flower beds, palm trees and tropical shrubs.
▪ Alpine strawberries either can be planted in a bed or around flower beds.
▪ Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding.
▪ Q: I have planted a border of red salvia around my flower beds.
▪ It's usually good rich stuff, ideal for the flower beds, so that's where it was dispatched.
▪ The grass was mowed, the flower beds were weeded and edged.
▪ The earth in the flower bed in front of the window was grey and powdery, the result of several weeks of drought.
▪ And, between the shops, the colorful patches of flower beds made it all appear orderly and safe.
garden
▪ Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden, and so on to the main road beyond.
▪ They are landscaping noses just like flower gardens.
▪ She pretended she was making her own flower garden, and picked large red flowers to push into the ground.
▪ The benign old woman wore a big flowered garden hat and tended a magical flower garden.
▪ The front of the Palace Theatre was presented as a flower garden with the Royal Box transformed with a bower of roses.
▪ They are as melodies to the violinist, or perennials to a flower garden.
▪ Extensive flower gardens, an adventure playground, and cafeteria, all help to make this a delightful place to visit.
▪ He designed the flower garden known as the Dingle, hidden away in the Quarry park.
power
▪ With spring in the air, why not let some flower power go to your head.
▪ It was a time for flower power and a return to nature and the simple ways.
▪ The date of this odd but interesting ballet might suggest intimations of flower power.
▪ They bloom earlier too, meaning more flower power per pound.
show
▪ Go to your nearest town occasionally for a special event - a concert, a festival, or a flower show.
▪ The flower show is July 8-13 at Hampton Court.
▪ International flower shows are held in Olomouc during the summer which are always popular.
▪ The Aug. 24-Sept. 3 trek covers Cape Province wineries, private gardens, open fields and a flower show.
▪ Coming up later we visit one of the finest palaces in the country which is hosting its first flower show.
▪ This show can easily give Philadelphia a run for the money; it is the third-largest flower show in the world.
▪ The Hampton Court Palace flower show is open until Sunday.
spring
▪ Trees such as Sorbus aucuparia serve the all-seasons garden well with spring flowers, abundant autumn berries and bright foliage colours.
▪ An outstanding feature of many spring flowers is the range of colours that they produce.
▪ Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers.
▪ All the bridesmaids carried posies of spring flowers, and wore antique pearl and gold necklaces and bracelets.
▪ The mountainsides were strewn with spring flowers.
▪ He stared at the spring flowers, looked up at a blackbird on a branch, and came slowly indoors again.
▪ And don't forget Britain's commonest spring flower -- bluebells.
▪ The furniture was white and chrome, and even the many vases of spring flowers were white.
■ VERB
arrange
▪ Here presumably Miss Wharton and her fellow helpers would arrange the flowers, wash out their dusters, refresh themselves with tea.
▪ Apparently, the Altar Guild had been in to arrange the flowers and had forgotten to lock the side door.
▪ It was as if she were arranging flowers or carding wool.
▪ Thérèse returned with her water-bottle, knelt down to arrange her flowers.
▪ Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design, I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers.
▪ Stick small poinsettias inside the larger ones with royal icing, then arrange flowers and leaves on the cake, as shown.
▪ He was always arranging for flowers and special photographs to be sent to Mrs Collingridge, doing little favours whenever he could.
▪ Inside St Michael and All Angels, women were arranging the flowers in golden tubs.
bring
▪ He always brings flowers, and that is nice.
▪ In other parts of the country, April showers bring May flowers.
▪ They need 14 hours of light a day to bring out the flowers.
▪ April also brings fantastic glacial flowers.
▪ They sit down as Karen goes off Tarquin You've brought her flowers?
▪ If they brought flowers, he thanked them politely but left them where he laid them down.
▪ Heads of the main voluntary and political groups in the territory brought wreaths of flowers covered with messages of condolence.
buy
▪ He's bought Jessica flowers and chocolates right from the start.
▪ I bought flowers for his girlfriends and polished the hubcaps on his car.
▪ It's something she would naturally do but it was not the job alone that spurred the gentleman to buy her flowers.
▪ Some weeks I forgot to buy flowers.
▪ It is more than a decision to buy flowers for your lover or plan a romantic dinner.
▪ I should buy some flowers, really.
▪ Or you can buy some flowers from a shop or market stall.
▪ As he walked he wondered if he should have bought her flowers.
grow
▪ They will not help the reader to grow brighter flowers or bigger cabbages.
▪ Some plants grow flower buds in fall.
▪ After a while they brought their bowls out of the cupboard and the green leaves grew taller and flower buds began to fatten.
▪ They grow flowers, but the male anthers are stunted or withered: Seed but no pollen is produced.
▪ His garden was a credit to him, too, and he grew flowers and potatoes.
▪ Some varieties, such as Choy Sum, are grown for the young flower shoots.
▪ He saw the bleak and unpromising moorland gain colour as the grasses grew and the flowers came.
▪ However, one really does not need extremely large amounts of space to grow the flowers needed for this very enjoyable hobby.
pick
▪ He picked up the flower and held it to the light, a cluster of faded crimson petals with attenuated stalks.
▪ I have picked out the flowers.
▪ We're hoping, there's just a chance, she left her car to pick wild flowers.
▪ But when she picked the flowers, the brothers turned into ravens and flew away.
▪ She picked a bunch of flowers for Alan once.
▪ The Khmers held hands as they advanced and sometimes picked flowers.
▪ Help to protect them by following these rules: Don't pick or uproot wild flowers.
▪ Red decided to pick some flowers for her grandmother along the way.
send
▪ So how could anyone be sending her flowers?
▪ Betty was shocked that a woman would send her flowers, and fell, she admitted, a little in love.
▪ All we have to do is send some nice flowers to each of his girlfriends.
▪ He was going to send her flowers.
▪ And he always remembers to send her flowers.
▪ They love it when you send them flowers.
▪ We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion, either happy or sad.
▪ News of Molly Hilary told the teachers she had taken it upon herself to send flowers to Molly on behalf of the Teachers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come into leaf/flower/blossom
▪ In the garden of the little farm, fruit trees are coming into flower, and others are beginning to leaf.
▪ The cherry tree was coming into blossom, encouraged by the unseasonably warm sunshine.
▪ When planted through beds of hybrid tea or floribunda rosea they add interest before the roses come into flower.
the flowering of sth
▪ Reforms paved the way for a flowering of democracy in Eastern Europe.
▪ After all, indiscretion is only the flowering of desperation.
▪ By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.
▪ In a way, we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch, the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo.
▪ Ling At this time of year the moors turn purple with the flowering of heathers.
▪ The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
▪ The period of emancipation, the flowering of literary tradition, the Holocaust.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amelia was holding a huge bouquet of flowers.
▪ Mrs. Coulter planted a few flowers in her front yard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Baptisia australis has indigo-blue flowers and superbly soft, bluish-grey foliage which is wonderful to use fresh.
▪ Here presumably Miss Wharton and her fellow helpers would arrange the flowers, wash out their dusters, refresh themselves with tea.
▪ I had hardly remembered the most obvious and striking spectacle of the myriad snow-white flowers now staring me in the face.
▪ It produces small, fragrant flowers that cluster on older stems.
▪ Other suggestions were wholesome, home-cooked meals or decorating the home with flowers and plants.
▪ She wanted to hold the flowers as well, and I told her that might just be possible.
▪ The female hazelnut flowers have extended their tiny purple tongues, but the male flowers resemble those of the alders.
▪ They need 14 hours of light a day to bring out the flowers.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
plant
▪ The plants are flowering several weeks too early.
▪ Some contain two or more different plants to flower together or to follow on from each other.
▪ This plant rarely flowers in the aquarium.
▪ On the average it takes about 18 months for a plant to flower.
▪ In reality, plants of all colours flower in the spring.
▪ A lot of plants thrive and flower in partial shade.
time
▪ Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time.
▪ Its strength in finance, flowering at the time, was deliberately promoted by the country's bureaucrats.
▪ It often flowers several times a year.
▪ They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy.
▪ They can flower any time, often in winter.
year
▪ The bulbs can be planted in the garden afterwards to flower outdoors the following year.
▪ Biennials: Plants that flower in their second year and then die, such as Sweet Williams and hollyhocks.
▪ D' you know, the tree hasn't flowered properly for six years.
▪ It often flowers several times a year.
▪ The first flowering pulse of the year is yellow, characterised by lesser celandine and primrose.
▪ Digitalis is biennial; they should flower next year.
▪ They will flower one year after they are sown.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the flowering of sth
▪ Reforms paved the way for a flowering of democracy in Eastern Europe.
▪ After all, indiscretion is only the flowering of desperation.
▪ By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.
▪ In a way, we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch, the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo.
▪ Ling At this time of year the moors turn purple with the flowering of heathers.
▪ The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
▪ The period of emancipation, the flowering of literary tradition, the Holocaust.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Communal living flowered briefly in the 1960s.
▪ Hardly any of the gladioli I planted actually flowered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Only perfection can flower in the light.
▪ The nasturtiums were flowering, brilliant and ragged across the soil, orange as flames.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flower

Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), n. [OE. flour, OF. flour, flur, flor, F. fleur, fr. L. flos, floris. Cf. Blossom, Effloresce, Floret, Florid, Florin, Flour, Flourish.]

  1. In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

  2. (Bot.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

    Note: If we examine a common flower, such for instance as a geranium, we shall find that it consistsFirst, an outer envelope or calyx, sometimes tubular, sometimes consisting of separate leaves called sepals; secondly, an inner envelope or corolla, which is generally more or less colored, and which, like the calyx, is sometimes tubular, sometimes composed of separate leaves called petals; thirdly, one or more stamens, consisting of a stalk or filament and a head or anther, in which the pollen is produced; and fourthly, a pistil, which is situated in the center of the flower, and consists generally of three principal parts; one or more compartments at the base, each containing one or more seeds; the stalk or style; and the stigma, which in many familiar instances forms a small head, at the top of the style or ovary, and to which the pollen must find its way in order to fertilize the flower.
    --Sir J. Lubbock.

  3. The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

    The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
    --Hooker.

    The flower of the chivalry of all Spain.
    --Southey.

    A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
    --Tennyson.

  4. Grain pulverized; meal; flour. [Obs.]

    The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue.
    --Arbuthnot.

  5. pl. (Old Chem.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

  6. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

  7. pl. (Print.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
    --W. Savage.

  8. pl. Menstrual discharges. --Lev. xv. 24. Animal flower (Zo["o]l.) See under Animal. Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. Flower beetle (Zo["o]l.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus Meligethes, family Nitidulid[ae], some of which are injurious to crops. Flower bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. Flower bud, an unopened flower. Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. Flower head (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on their receptacle, as in the case of the daisy. Flower pecker (Zo["o]l.), one of a family ( Dic[ae]id[ae]) of small Indian and Australian birds. They resemble humming birds in habits. Flower piece.

    1. A table ornament made of cut flowers.

    2. (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers.

      Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

Flower

Flower \Flow"er\, v. t. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flower

Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowered (flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.]

  1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

  2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.

    Their lusty and flowering age.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    When flowered my youthful spring.
    --Spenser.

  3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

    That beer did flower a little.
    --Bacon.

  4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]

    Observations which have flowered off.
    --Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flower

c.1200, "be vigorous, prosper, thrive," from flower (n.). Of a plant or bud, "to blossom," c.1300. Meaning "adorn or cover with flowers" is from 1570s. Related: Flowered; flowering.

flower

c.1200, flour, also flur, flor, floer, floyer, flowre, "the blossom of a plant; a flowering plant," from Old French flor "flower, blossom; heyday, prime; fine flour; elite; innocence, virginity" (12c., Modern French fleur), from Latin florem (nominative flos) "flower" (source of Italian fiore, Spanish flor; compare flora).\n

\nFrom late 14c. in English as "blossoming time," also, figuratively, "prime of life, height of one's glory or prosperity, state of anything that may be likened to the flowering state of a plant." As "the best, the most excellent; the best of its class or kind; embodiment of an ideal," early 13c. (of persons, mid-13c. of things); for example flour of milk "cream" (early 14c.); especially "wheat meal after bran and other coarse elements have been removed, the best part of wheat" (mid-13c.). Modern spelling and full differentiation from flour (n.) is from late 14c.\n

\nIn the "blossom of a plant" sense it ousted its Old English cognate blostm (see blossom (n.)). Also used from Middle English as a symbol of transitoriness (early 14c.); "a beautiful woman" (c.1300); "virginity" (early 14c.). Flower-box is from 1818. Flower-arrangement is from 1873. Flower child "gentle hippie" is from 1967.

Wiktionary
flower

Etymology 1 n. 1 A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. 2 (context botany English) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil. 3 A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood. 4 (context usually with in English) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms. 5 (context euphemistic hypocoristic English) The vulva, especially the labia major

  1. v

  2. 1 To put forth blooms. 2 To reach a state of full development or achievement. 3 To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. 4 To come off as flowers by sublimation. Etymology 2

    n. (lb en rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

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WordNet
flower

  1. n. a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

  2. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: bloom, blossom]

  3. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush]

flower

v. produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn: bloom, blossom]

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Wikipedia
Flower (Sonic Youth song)

Flower is a song by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released as a single in 1985 by record label Homestead, backed by "Halloween", and also released the following year by record label Blast First with "Satan Is Boring" as the B-side. It also appeared on re-releases of the band's 1985 album Bad Moon Rising.

Flower (Jody Watley album)

Flower is the sixth album by American pop singer Jody Watley, released in 1998.

Flower (Soundgarden song)

"Flower" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Featuring lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil, "Flower" was released in May 1989 as the only single from the band's debut album, Ultramega OK (1988). The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album, A-Sides. An alternate BBC version of "Flower" recorded on 14 May 1989 appeared on the Deluxe Edition of the band's 2010 compilation album Telephantasm.

Flower (disambiguation)

A flower is a reproductive structure found in many plants.

Flower or Flowers may also refer to:

Flower (Kumi Koda song)

"Flower," (stylized as flower) is Kumi Koda's 17th domestic single. Flower was written as the theme song for the novel Koibana (恋バナ / Love Story) and also used in the television advertisement for the novel. The lyrics were written by the author of Koibana, Yoshi. This was also the first domestic single released by Kumi Koda that was not accompanied by a promotional music video. It reached #4 on the weekly Oricon Chart.

Flower

In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.

Flower (Tomiko Van song)

"Flower" is Tomiko Van's debut single under the Avex Trax label. The single was released on June 7, 2006 in two formats.

Flower (L'Arc-en-Ciel song)

"Flower" is the sixth single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on October 17, 1996 it reached number 5 on the Oricon chart. The single was re-released on August 30, 2006.

Flower (Akira Jimbo album)

Flower is the eighth solo album by drummer Akira Jimbo and was released on January 28, 1997. It features several guest musicians, such as longtime collaborators Gary Stockdale and Keiko Matsui.

Flower (Liz Phair song)

"Flower" is a song by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair from her 1993 debut album Exile in Guyville. It is about the singer's infatuation with a man she regularly sees, and explicitly describes her sexual attraction and fantasies about him.

The song first appeared on one of her Girly Sound tapes. The song was later covered by Pansy Division on their 1995 album Pile Up. The Industrial Power Noise band Caustic covered the song on their 2007 release Booze Up And Riot: Hangover Edition featuring Victoria Lloyd of the band Claire Voyant singing vocals.

Flower (Gackt song)

"Flower" is the thirty-fourth single by Japanese recording artist Gackt, released on July 1, 2009. This single is the final of the four singles of the countdown to Gackt's 10th anniversary as solo artist. Each of the countdown singles were released within a week of each other. There are two versions of the music video.

Flower (name)

Flower is a surname and given name.

Flower (Atsuko Maeda song)

"Flower" is Atsuko Maeda's first solo single. It was released in four versions: three regular CD+DVD "act" editions and a limited CD-only theater edition. First pressings of the regular editions came with a photo book (unique for each edition), while the theater edition came with either a handshake event ticket or one of ten photos at random. The title track was used as an insert song in the film Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no "Management" wo Yondara, starring Maeda herself. The single was released on June 22, 2011.

Flower (EP)

Flower is the debut solo release of South Korean artist Yong Jun-hyung, member and rapper of K-pop group Beast. The mini-album was released on 13 December 2013.

Flower (Japanese band)

Flower is a Japanese pop girl group formed by LDH in 2009 and signed to Sony Music Japan. They are a dance and vocal unit of collective girl group E-girls alongside Dream and Happiness. The group consists of one vocalist and five performers.

Flower (video game)

Flower is a video game developed by Thatgamecompany and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Flower, designed by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark, was released in February 2009 on PlayStation 3, via the PlayStation Network. PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions of the game were ported over by Bluepoint Games, and released in November 2013. The game was intended as a " spiritual successor" to Flow, a previous title by Chen and Thatgamecompany. In Flower, the player controls the wind, blowing a flower petal through the air using the movement of the game controller. Flying close to flowers results in the player's petal being followed by other flower petals. Approaching flowers may also have side-effects on the game world, such as bringing vibrant color to previously dead fields or activating stationary windmills. The game features no text or dialogue, forming a narrative arc primarily through visual representation and emotional cues.

Flower was primarily intended to arouse positive emotions in the player, rather than to be a challenging and "fun" game. This focus was sparked by Chen, who felt that the primary purpose of entertainment products like video games was the feelings that they evoked in the audience, and that the emotional range of most games was very limited. The team viewed their efforts as creating a work of art, removing gameplay elements and mechanics that were not provoking the desired response in the players. The music, composed by Vincent Diamante, dynamically responds to the player's actions and corresponds with the emotional cues in the game. Flower was a critical success, to the surprise of the developers. Reviewers praised the game's music, visuals, and gameplay, calling it a unique and compelling emotional experience. It was named the "best independent game of 2009" at the Spike Video Game Awards, and won the "Casual Game of the Year" award by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

Flower (American band)

Flower was a New York City indie rock band (June 1986 – 1990) formed by guitarist Richard Baluyut (later of Versus and Whysall Lane), singer/bassist Ian James (later of Cell and French), drummer Rob Hale (also later of Versus), and keyboardist Yosh Najita (formerly of synth band Groan Box).

After recording the Crash EP with Kramer at Noise New York studios, Najita and Hale were replaced by Richard's brother Edward Baluyut (also later of Versus) on guitar and Andrew Bordwin on drums, and Richard began sharing lead vocal duties.

Their final album Hologram Sky was not released domestically in the US, and Ian James was briefly replaced by Fontaine Toups before the band dissolved in 1990. Following the renewed interest in the band generated by the success of Toups and the Baluyuts in Versus, high profile indie label Simple Machines compiled all the band's recordings (except Crash) into Concrete Sky in 1994, and the group reunited for some promotional shows.

Flower (Kylie Minogue song)

"Flower" is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue. The song was originally written by Minogue and Steve Anderson of Brothers in Rhythm for Minogue's tenth studio album X (2007), but it did not make the final cut. However, it was performed in the set list for the KylieX2008 tour.

In 2011, the song was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios for the orchestral compilation album The Abbey Road Sessions. The song was released as the first single from the album on 25 September 2012 by Parlophone Records. The studio version of the song premiered on BBC Radio 2 on 24 September 2012. The song received positive reviews from music critics, with critics enjoying the lyrical message and the production. A music video was shot for the single which premiered on Minogue's website.

Flower (XIA album)

Flower is the third studio album of South Korean singer Kim Junsu, released under his stage name XIA on 3 March 2015. The album features artists Tablo, Dok2 and Naul from Brown Eyed Soul. The album debuted at first place on the Gaon Chart. JYJ‘s Junsu has revealed plans to release a special edition album on May 28. The special edition album will include a disco punk mix version of “X Song,” an instrumental of “Flower,” music videos, album jacket filming making video, a DVD including his interviews, and more than fifty previously unreleased photos.

Flower (Cody Simpson song)

"Flower" is a song recorded by Australian singer Cody Simpson for his upcoming third full-length studio album, Free (2015). The song was released digitally in February 5, 2015 by Simpson's independent label Bananabeat Records.

Flower (South Korean band)

Flower, is a South Korean pop rock band. They well known for their song "Endless" which became very popular in South Korea.

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Usage examples of "flower".

Well if ye will go to the Flower de Luce and abide there this night, ye shall have a let-pass to-morn betimes.

The terrace next to the side porch was already abloom with freshly planted flowers.

Kingsley looked out over the flower beds that, still abloom in spite of the lateness of the season, lay before Aylesberg Hall.

I liked the way the hem of her dress flapped over her legs, the dust coming aburst like a big gray flower all around her.

The Duchesse de Luynes allowed the special wheelbarrow she had had made in acajou to be wheeled by the flower girls who were her teammates.

The blue flowers of the slender-leaved flax, combined with the bright hues of the scarlet acanthus, a flower peculiar to the country.

These patterns are abstracted for the most part from leaves and flowers - the rose, the lotus, the acanthus, palm, papyrus - and are elaborated, with recurrences and variations, into something transportingly reminiscent of the living geometries of the Other World.

This acknowledgment lies hidden in all evil, however the evil may be veiled by good and truth, which are borrowed raiment, or like wreaths of perishable flowers, put around the evil lest it appear in its nakedness.

It flowers from early in Spring until Autumn, and has, particularly in Summer, an acrid bitter taste.

The flower under observation at first diverged a little from its upright position, so as to occupy the open space caused by the removal of the adjoining flowers.

On days of general festivity, it was the custom of the ancients to adorn their doors with lamps and with branches of laurel, and to crown their heads with a garland of flowers.

Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aereal hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view!

You may trace a common motive and force in the pyramid-builders of the earliest recorded antiquity, in the evolution of Greek architecture, and in the sudden springing up of those wondrous cathedrals of the twelfth and following centuries, growing out of the soil with stem and bud and blossom, like flowers of stone whose seeds might well have been the flaming aerolites cast over the battlements of heaven.

Even the succulent blue lilies--a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses--hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.

At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.