English Dictionary

paper flower

noun

A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts. / A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.

I made a beautiful paper flower for my friend's birthday.

意味（1）

A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.

prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ...

意味（2）

A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.

There is my Quaker Aunt, A Paper-Flower, — with a formal border / No breeze could e'er disorder, — Pouting at that old beau—the Winter Cherry, / A pucker'd berry; / And Box, like a tough-liv'd annuitant

意味（3）

A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.

Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate.

意味（4）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, flower.

He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel.