flower

Meanings

Noun

• A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
• 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.
• Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
• The vulva, especially the labia majora.
• The best examples or representatives of a group.
• The best state of things; the prime.
• Flour.
• A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
• A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
• Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
• Menstrual discharges.
• Something that flows, such as a river.

Verb

• To put forth blooms.
• To decorate with pictures of flowers.
• To reach a state of full development or achievement.
• To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
• To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Related

Similar words

• head, pseudanthium
• cream
• prime
• bloom, blossom
• flourish

Origin

• From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ("to thrive, bloom"). flour.
• Partially displaced Middle English blosme, blossem (see blossom).
• flow + -er