English Dictionary

flower

/ˈflaʊ.ə/

noun

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

I picked a beautiful flower from the garden.

意味（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.

O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot / How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: / Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot / That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.

意味（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.

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.

意味（3）

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

We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.

意味（4）

A cut flower; 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.

意味（5）

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

The dogwoods are in flower this week.

意味（6）

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

[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.

意味（7）

The best examples or representatives of a group.

At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.

意味（8）

The best state of things; the prime.

She was in the flower of her life.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Flour.

The Flovvers of Grains mix'd vvith VVater vvill make a ſort of Glue.

意味（10）

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

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.

意味（11）

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

意味（12）

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

I pointed out to the late Mr. Catherwood, of the firm of Caslon and Catherwood, the inconvenience of both these modes of cutting flowers,

意味（13）

(in the plural, obsolete) Menstrual discharges.

And if any man lye with her at all, and her flowers be vpon him, hee shall be vncleane seuen dayes: and all the bed whereon he lyeth, shall be vncleane.