American English pronunciation
How to pronounce flower
IPA transcription: [f'laʊɚ]
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Noun
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a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
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reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
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the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Verb
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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.