Word for the day: flower

flower |ˈflaʊ.ər|                                                                 *flor (en Español)



DEFINITION

noun
1 the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals).• a flower together with its stalk, picked for use as a decoration: a bunch of flowers.• [ mass noun ] the state or period in which a plant's flowers have developed and opened: the roses were just coming into flower .2 (the flower of) the finest individuals out of a number of people or things: he wasted the flower of French youth on his dreams of empire.

verb [ no obj. ]1 (of a plant) produce flowers; bloom: Michaelmas daisies can flower aslate as October.• [ with obj. ] induce (a plant) to produce flowers.2 be in or reach an optimum stage of development; develop fully andrichly: she flowered into as striking a beauty as her mother | (asnounflowering) : the flowering of Viennese intellectual life.
DERIVATIVES
flowerless adjective,flower-like adjective
ORIGIN Middle English flour, from Old French flour, flor, from Latin flos, flor-. The original spelling wasno longer in use by the late 17th cent. except in its specialised sense ‘ground grain’  .

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