flower
/ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ/ noun A1- 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. · We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.
- The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc. · He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.
- Of plants, a state of bearing blooms. · The dogwoods are in flower this week.
- The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The best state of things; the prime. · She was in the flower of her life.
Plural flowers
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Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.
Beautiful green flowers stood in the windows, and there was a shelf with a row of little green books.
Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.
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