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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.Examples: "You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant."countableuncountable
2. (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.Examples: "The dogwoods are in flower this week."uncountableusually
3. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.Examples: "[F]or ſtill, that my virgin-flower was yet uncrop'd never once enter'd into his head, and he would have thought it idling with time and words to have queſtion'd me upon it."; "So was it asserted, that whenever a maiden was destined to die unmarried, as surely would the plant wither away and perish, and if a dughter of the Renseccos lost her honour or had given away her flower to an unworthy lover, then would the flower be blighted overnight."; "In some local tradditions a fallen bride was married wearing a crown of straw rather than a garland of flowers, to symbolize her loss of virginity – the wilting of her flower."countableeuphemisticfamiliaruncountable
4. (obsolete) Flour.Examples: "The Flovvers of Grains mix'd vvith VVater vvill make a ſort of Glue."countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.Examples: "the flowers of sulphur"; "Exposed to a moderate fire in subliming pots, [brimstone] rises all into dry, and almost tasteless, flowers; whereas being exposed to a naked fire, it affords store of a saline and fretting liquor."countablein-pluralobsoleteuncountable
6. (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.Examples: "I pointed out to the late Mr. Catherwood, of the firm of Caslon and Catherwood, the inconvenience of both these modes of cutting flowers,"countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To put forth blooms.Examples: "This plant flowers in June."Synonyms: bloom, blossomintransitive
2. (transitive) To decorate with pictures of flowers.transitive
3. (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.Examples: "when flowr'd my youthful spring"; "It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course."; "In life after life of this now-expanded circle of women artists, writers and revolutionaries, the same appeared: a flowing of creative insight and vision seemed the follow a sexual flowering."Synonyms: flourishintransitive
4. (archaic, intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.Examples: "That beer did flower a little."archaicintransitive
5. (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.Examples: "observations which have flowered off"intransitive
noun (English)
1. (rare, especially crosswording) Something that flows, such as a river.Examples: "Leaving the weavers’ village behind you, and crossing the sandy bed of the Vengavati or ‘Swift-flower,’ which, however, contained not a drop of water, you reach the ancient Jain temple."; "Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”]."; "sará-yu, f. [swift flower: √sri] N. of a river (in Oudh), in C. gnly. û."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary