flower
A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
Noun 3 meanings
A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
“We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.”
The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
“He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.”
Verb 4 meanings
To put forth blooms.
“This plant flowers in June.”
To decorate with pictures of flowers.
To reach a state of full development or achievement.
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
Etymology
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
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FLOWER at a glance
FLOWER has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (F 4 + L 1 + O 1 + W 4 + E 1 + R 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,424 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with flower
All rhymesOne letter away
- SLOWER9
- FLOWED13
- BLOWER11
- GLOWER10
- PLOWER11
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