flower
Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ̯.ə/
The English word “flower” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
- The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- Flour.
- A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- Menstrual discharges.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- Credit, recognition.
- Cannabis.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
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