FLOWER


Meaning of FLOWER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ flaʊə(r) ]

( flowers, flowering, flowered)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

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.

N-COUNT

2.

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.

N-COUNT : usu pl

3.

Flowers are small plants that are grown for their flowers as opposed to trees, shrubs, and vegetables.

...a lawned area surrounded by plants and flowers...

The flower garden will be ablaze with colour every day.

N-COUNT : usu pl

4.

When a plant or tree flowers , its flowers appear and open.

Several of these rhododendrons will flower this year for the first time.

VERB : V

5.

When something flowers , for example a political movement or a relationship, it gets stronger and more successful.

Their relationship flowered.

= blossom

VERB : V

6.

When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower , its flowers have appeared and opened.

PHRASE : usu v-link PHR , PHR after v

7.

see also flowered

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