Crossword clues for wallflower
wallflower
- Nonmixer at a mixer
- Remains on sidelines at social event
- Sometimes placed in genus Erysimum
- Often naturalized on old walls or cliffs
- Any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers
- Perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange
- She's not the belle of the ball
- Shy one at a dance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wallflower \Wall"flow`er\, n.
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(Bot.) A perennial, cruciferous plant ( Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
Note: The name is sometimes extended to other species of Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower ( Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers.
A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]
(Bot.) In Australia, the desert poison bush ( Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the ''Erysimum'' genus with bright yellow to red flowers. 2 ''Gastrolobium grandiflorum'', a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia. 3 (context informal English) A person who is socially awkward, especially one who does not dance at a party due to shyness.
WordNet
n. any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers
perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum [syn: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri]
remains on sidelines at social event
Wikipedia
Wallflower (Laurie Collins) is a mutant appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a member of the student body of the Xavier Institute and a member of the New Mutants training squad therein. After the events of M-Day transpired, she was one of a handful of mutants to keep her powers. She first appeared in New Mutants, vol. 2 #2 and died in New X-Men, vol. 2 #25.
A wallflower is someone who is a type of loner that can be very shy and who is not close with other individuals. When they attend group gatherings, they may choose or feel the need to blend in and remain silent.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed), the first known usage of the term in this sense was in an 1820 poem entitled County Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed. It was originally used to refer to women, and only in the context of dances; more recently the term has been expanded to include men and other social gatherings.
Wallflower or Erysimum is a genus of flowering plants.
Wallflower may also refer to:
- Wallflower (people), a shy person
"Wallflower" is a song written and recorded in November 1971 by Bob Dylan. Dylan's own recording, however, was not released until twenty years later as part of The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991. An alternate version from the same 1971 session was released in 2013 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971).
In October 1972, the song was recorded by Doug Sahm, with Dylan singing backing vocal, for Sahm's album Doug Sahm and Band, released in 1973. The song has since been covered by many artists.
Wallflower is the second and final studio album by the American grunge band My Sister's Machine. The song "Enemy" was included on the compilation album Hard Music, Volume 1 in 1994.
Wallflower were an alternative rock band from London, England. They were active between 1994–1998, and released two EPs and a 10" single.
"Wallflower" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the Fox science-fiction drama television series Fringe, and the series' 72nd episode overall. "Wallflower" served as the shows' mid-season finale, as it is the last to air in 2011; the next installment was broadcast on January 13, 2012.
The episode was co-written by Matt Pitts and Justin Doble, while being directed by Anthony Hemingway.
Wallflower is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Janis Paige, Edward Arnold, Barbara Brown and Jerome Cowan. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 13, 1948.
Wallflower is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Diana Krall, released on February 3, 2015 by Verve Records. The album was produced by David Foster. The album's supporting tour, Wallflower World Tour, began in Boston on February 25, 2015.
Usage examples of "wallflower".
And the charm of the old manor around him, the garden with its grey stone walls and yew hedges--broad, broad yew hedges and a peacock pausing to glitter and scream in the busy silence of an English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall.
Rex held open the french-windows and together they crossed the sunlit lawn, gay with its beds of tulips, polyanthus, wallflowers and forget-me-nots.
No doubt these causes would tend greatly to the former scarcity of the finer kinds, but all the difficulties, if they can be called such, may be overcome by the very simple process of either putting in cuttings like wallflower slips during summer, or, as soon as the old plants are past their best bloom, dividing and replanting the various parts deeper, whereby all of them, however small, will make good plants the following season.
A cross-eyed Jersey-Guernsey cross -- runty, unassuming, and as unpretty as her father -- yet this wallflower was to be the first to clear Abdul of the charge of Flagrant Ferdinandeering.
No matter what it was,--a bit of oddly tinted masonry with a tuft of brown and orange wallflowers hanging upon it, or a vegetable stall where endive and chiccory and curly lettuces were arranged in wreaths with tiny orange gourds and scarlet peppers for points of color,--it was all Rome, and, by virtue of that word, different from any other place,--more suggestive, more interesting, ten times more mysterious than any other could possibly be, so Katy thought.
Her home was in the more unfashionable part, a modest semi-detached with a front garden hedged by laurel bushes and planted by her with daffodils, wallflowers and dahlias according to the season.
But you could feel her fierce egalitarian scorn, in the way she had highlighted their silliness and pretension, and the compassion she displayed for the nouveau riche who tried to break in, and for the wallflower who sat unfeted through ball after ball.
The next section had an emaciated SKELETON WEED, a bright SHOOTING STAR, a WALLFLOWER, and a PAINTBRUSH slopping a new color on it.
Trent had transformed bugs to various things: several large wallflowers, a giant bedbug, pillow and blanket bushes, a big box elder tree with red, black, and yellow slats, and assorted other things stored within that box.
More of the cloud thinned, to reveal an impromptu castle with walls made from wallflowers and a main turret formed by the box elder.