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flower 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: flor, flour, from Latin flos]
a coloured or white part that a plant or tree produces before fruit or seeds
::a lovely rose bush with delicate pink flowers
::fields full of beautiful wild flowers
leaf, petal, stem, stalk
a small plant that produces beautiful flowers
::He wasn't interested in growing flowers in the garden.
::She bent down and picked a flower .
bunch/bouquet of flowers
::The first night we met he gave me a bunch of flowers.
::a beautiful flower arrangement (=flowers arranged together in an attractive way)
in flower
a plant or tree that is in flower has flowers on it
::It was May, and the apple trees were all in flower.
::Roses start to come into flower in June.
the flower of sth
literary the best part of something
::young men killed in the flower of their youth