flower
suomi-englanti sanakirjaflower englannista suomeksi
kukka
kukoistus
kukkia
flower englanniksi
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for reproduction.
(RQ:Basse Pastorals)
(RQ:Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring)
(senseid) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
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(senseid) A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
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The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill)
(quote-book)
The best examples or representatives of a group.
(RQ:Skelton Complete), / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.
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(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(quote-book)|year=1899|page=197|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/scottishandameri00kenniala/page/197/mode/1up|passage=NO lady fair in hall or bower, / In days when knighthood was in flower, / Or high-born dame with jewels set, / Or Tudor or Plantagenet, / E’er wore enwreath’d on form and face / Thy royal robe of richest grace.
(RQ:Arbuthnot Aliments)
(senseid) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
(RQ:Boyle Sceptical Chymist)
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
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(RQ:King James Version)
A delicate, fragile{{, or oversensitive person.
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(quote-journal) is, ''finally'', getting her flowers. Ever since demurely (I don't use that word lightly!!!) performing what would become the song of 2024 as part of her Coachella set—no, literally, "(w)" just won the (w)—all eyes have been on 'Brina.
(lbl) To put forth blooms.
(lbl) To decorate with pictures of flowers.
(lbl) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender)
1940 (w), translator, (w), ''An Autobiography'', Part III (IX) The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part III/Simple Life, original published 1927-1929
- It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Naomi Wolf|title=Vagina: A New Biography|page=43
(lbl) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(lbl) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
(RQ:Milton Of Education)
1886–1890, J. D. Rees, ''Narratives of Tours in India'', page 340:
- 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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1888|author=John T. White|title=The Seventh Book of Cæsar’s Gallic War with a Vocabulary|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kkVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22swift-flower%22&pg=PA224v=onepage&q=%22swift-flower%22&f=false|page=224
{{quote-book|en|year=1893|author=Arthur A. MacDonnell|title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-P9SIJE2IvAC&lpg=PA340&ots=fZZprW61Hf&dq=%22swift%20flower%22%20river&pg=PA340v=onepage&q=%22swift%20flower%22%20river&f=false|page=340
{{quote-journal|en|year=1959|journal=Scottish Studies|volume=3-4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5RnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fast+flower%22+flows&dq=%22fast+flower%22+flows&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jClCVf3jCMGeNoOUgdgJ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw|page=92
{{quote-journal|en|date=24 August 2019|journal=Radio Times Crossword
someone who is allowed to participate in games but cannot become it; usually a younger sibling of a player who may or may not fully grasp the mechanics of the game
(l) or season tile
act of declaring and revealing a flower or season tile and in order drawing a replacement tile
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