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Flower

noun

A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.

Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. Synonyms: bloom, blossom.

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime.

verb

(past & past part. flowered; pres. part. flowering)

Produce or yield flowers. Synonyms: bloom, blossom.

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"Flower" Quotes from Famous Books

... of May, in the year of our Lord's grace eleven hundred and forty-five. In the little garden between the outer wall of the manor and the moat of Stoke Regis Manor, a lady slowly walked along the narrow path between high rose bushes trained upon the masonry, and a low flower-bed, divided into many little squares, planted alternately with flowers and sweet herbs on one side, and bordered with budding violets on the other. From the line where the flowers ended, spiked rushes ...

— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford

... object of creation is but a guideboard with an index-finger pointing to the central figure of the created universe—Man. Nature writes this thought upon every leaf, she thunders it in every creation. It is exhaled from every flower; ...

— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

... an heir at the age of ten years—heir to all the fortune of his dead aunt, which consisted of two shillings and fourpence, a flower-basket, a pebble with a hole drilled through it, and a dying woman's blessing. "Truly," you ...

— Little Folks (October 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... one of Punch's suggestion that it could be more conveniently carried upon a salver by a domestic walking behind; a little later, the only bonnet admissible closed around the face like a cap, laces and feathers had disappeared, a few tastefully disposed knots of ribbon, or a single flower, were the only adornments: but hardly had Good Sense nodded approvingly at the graceful simplicity with which heads were covered, when, lo! the bonnets shot up like bright-hued coal-scuttles, over which a basket of buds and blossoms had been ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... some subtle power took him back to the vicinity of the door through which he had first caught his glimpse of Jessie, the flower of Fort Harmony. For the first time he believed the post to be well ...

— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne

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