- flower
- [[t]fla͟ʊ'ə(r)[/t]]
♦♦1) N-COUNT A flower is the part of a plant which is often brightly coloured, grows at the end of a stem, and only survives for a short time.
Each individual flower is tiny.
...large, purplish-blue flowers.
2) N-COUNT: usu pl A flower is a stem of a plant that has one or more flowers on it and has been picked, usually with others, for example to give as a present or to put in a vase....a bunch of flowers sent by a new admirer.
3) N-COUNT: usu pl Flowers are small plants that are grown for their flowers as opposed to trees, shrubs, and vegetables....a lawned area surrounded by screening plants and flowers...
The flower garden will be ablaze with colour every day.
4) VERB When a plant or tree flowers, its flowers appear and open.Several of these rhododendrons will flower this year for the first time.
5) VERB When something flowers, for example a political movement or a relationship, it gets stronger and more successful.Their relationship flowered.
Syn:6) N-SING: the N of n A person or thing that is described as the flower of something is the best part or example of it. [LITERARY]Those killed have been described as the flower of Polish manhood.
7) PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, PHR after v When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.Some of the daffodils are still in flower...
As one plant fades, another comes into flower.
8) → See also flowered
English dictionary. 2008.
