Definitions for Flower

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Flower flow·er

Spelling: [flou-er]

IPA: /ˈflaʊ ər/

Flower is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in Flower (eflorw).

Definitions for Flower

noun

1. the blossom of a plant.
2. Botany. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, especially when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.
3. a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.
4. state of efflorescence or bloom:
5. an ornament representing a flower.
6. Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, especially a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.
7. an ornament or adornment.
8. the finest or most flourishing period:
9. the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole:
10. the finest or choicest product or example.
11. flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, especially as obtained by sublimation:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or deck with flowers.
2. to decorate with a floral design.

verb (used without object)

1. to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.
2. to come out into full development; mature.

Origin of Flower

1150-1200; Middle English flour flower, best of anything Old French flor, flour, flur Latin flōr- (stem of flōs). Cf. blossom

Examples for Flower

“A flower crown more appropriately aligned with who I am and where we were,” says Greenstein.

The elms are in tenderest leaf, the hawthorn bursting into flower.

No; the steam-engine is the better thing, for it has the soul of a man in it, and the flower has no soul at all.

Let the flower crown represent you, or rather go on and represent the flower crown—preferably on a farm somewhere.

She will like this flower, and she will like you to bring it to her.

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

My plan was to reduce each man's ration of flower from 7lbs.

I decorated with marigolds, which are considered the flower of the dead.

Every flower, every blade of grass, every tree had to be created in CG.

If God be not, then steam-engine and flower are in the same category.