American English pronunciation

How to pronounce flower

IPA transcription: [f'laʊɚ]

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[f'laʊɚ]

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Noun

  • a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

  • reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

  • the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Verb

  • produce or yield flowers

    “The cherry tree bloomed”

Usage examples

  • Women sells flowers from a cart with a large red umbrella.
  • Adults can be observed from April to August on flowers, twigs of conifer.
  • The flower stem is also very bristly.
  • Charles Lindbergh sent flowers.
  • The genus is characterized by personate flowers with an inferior gibbous corolla.
  • Wildflowers flourished on the verge of the country road
  • They are large rhizomatous herbaceous plants but lacking an aerial stem, except when flowering.
  • Orchids of the genus "Ophrys" use sexual deception to attract pollinators to their flowers.
  • I want my garden to be filled with roses, petunias and passion flowers.
  • The flowers are usually yellow, rarely white, produced in large umbels.