flower
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,930 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,313 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts also: bloom, blossom
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity also: prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence
verb
- produce or yield flowers also: bloom, blossom The cherry tree bloomed
flower in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Never dropp'd mildew on a flower here till now.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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The heath was full of bilberries and whimberries; but they were only in flower yet, for it was June.
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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The seniors are there with their mothers and fathers, their pretty little sisters and their proud little brothers--the flower of the country.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The spider in the laurel spins, The weed exiles the flower: And, flung to kiln, Apollo’s bust Makes lime for Mammon’s tower.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1