Flower

  • 11flower — n blossom, bloom, blow (see under BLOSSOM vb) flower vb *blossom, bloom, blow Analogous words: flourish, prosper (see SUCCEED) …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 12Flower — Flow er, v. t. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13flower — flower. См. цветок. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 14Flower — (spr. flauer), Roswell Pettabone, amerikanischer Staatsmann, geb. 7. Aug. 1835 in Theresa (New York), gest. 1899, eröffnete in seinem Geburtsort einen Juwelierladen, siedelte 1863 nach New York über und eröffnete dort ein Bankgeschäft. Er zog… …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 15flower — index proliferate, pullulate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 16Flower — A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with… …

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  • 17flower — /flow euhr/, n. 1. the blossom of a plant. 2. Bot. a. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. b. an analogous reproductive… …

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  • 18flower — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bright, brightly coloured/colored, brilliantly coloured/colored, colourful/colorful ▪ fragrant, scented ▪ delicate …

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  • 19flower — flow|er1 W2S2 [ˈflauə US ər] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: flor, flour, from Latin flos] 1.) a coloured or white part that a plant or tree produces before fruit or seeds ▪ a lovely rose bush with delicate pink flowers ▪ fields full of …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20flower — [[t]fla͟ʊ ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ flowers, flowering, flowered 1) N COUNT A flower is the part of a plant which is often brightly coloured, grows at the end of a stem, and only survives for a short time. Each individual flower is tiny. ...large, purplish… …

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