Flower
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
Menstrual discharges.
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
To come into the finest or fairest condition.
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
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Flower Quotations
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Flower Translations
flower in Afrikaans is blom
flower in Danish is blomst
flower in Dutch is bloem
flower in Finnish is kukka
flower in French is fleur
flower in German is Blume
flower in Italian is fiore, fioritura
flower in Norwegian is blomst, blomstre
flower in Portuguese is flor
flower in Spanish is flor
flower in Swedish is blomma
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