Definition of "flower" in Englisch

noun

1. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

2. (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.

3. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

   • We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.

4. The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.

   • He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.

5. (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.

   • The dogwoods are in flower this week.

6. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.

7. The best examples or representatives of a group.

8. The best state of things; the prime.

   • She was in the flower of her life.

9. (obsolete) Flour.

10. (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.

    • the flowers of sulphur

11. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

12. (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

13. (in the plural, obsolete) Menstrual discharges.

14. A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.

15. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Credit, recognition.

    • to give someone his flowers; to get one's flowers

16. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

verb

1. (intransitive) To put forth blooms.

   • This plant flowers in June.

2. (transitive) To decorate with pictures of flowers.

3. (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.

   • It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.

4. (archaic, intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

5. (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.

noun

1. (rare, especially crosswording) Something that flows, such as a river.

   • 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.