flower
suomi-englanti sanakirjaflower englannista suomeksi
kukka
kukoistus
kukkia
flower englanniksi
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for reproduction.
(RQ:Basse Pastorals)
(RQ:Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring)
A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
{{quote-text|en|year=1894|author=H. G. Wells|title=s:The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
(ux)
The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill)
The best examples or representatives of a group.
(RQ:Skelton Complete), / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.
(RQ:Hooker Laws)
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(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(quote-book)|year=1899|page=197|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/scottishandameri00kenniala/page/197/mode/1up|passage=NO lady fair in hall or bower, / In days when knighthood was in flower, / Or high-born dame with jewels set, / Or Tudor or Plantagenet, / E’er wore enwreath’d on form and face / Thy royal robe of richest grace.
(RQ:Arbuthnot Aliments)
(senseid) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
(RQ:Boyle Sceptical Chymist)
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
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(RQ:King James Version)
A delicate, fragile{{, or oversensitive person.
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(rfv-sense) Credit, recognition.
(lbl) To put forth blooms.
(lbl) To decorate with pictures of flowers.
(lbl) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender)
1940 (w), translator, (w), ''An Autobiography'', Part III (IX) The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part III/Simple Life, original published 1927-1929
- It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Naomi Wolf|title=Vagina: A New Biography|page=43
(lbl) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(lbl) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
(RQ:Milton Of Education)
(etymid) (affix)
1886–1890, J. D. Rees, ''Narratives of Tours in India'', page 340:
- 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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1888|author=John T. White|title=The Seventh Book of Cæsar’s Gallic War with a Vocabulary|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kkVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22swift-flower%22&pg=PA224v=onepage&q=%22swift-flower%22&f=false|page=224
{{quote-book|en|year=1893|author=Arthur A. MacDonnell|title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-P9SIJE2IvAC&lpg=PA340&ots=fZZprW61Hf&dq=%22swift%20flower%22%20river&pg=PA340v=onepage&q=%22swift%20flower%22%20river&f=false|page=340
{{quote-journal|en|year=1959|journal=Scottish Studies|volume=3-4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5RnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fast+flower%22+flows&dq=%22fast+flower%22+flows&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jClCVf3jCMGeNoOUgdgJ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw|page=92
{{quote-journal|en|date=24 August 2019|journal=Radio Times Crossword
someone who is allowed to participate in games but cannot become it; usually a younger sibling of a player who may or may not fully grasp the mechanics of the game
(l) or season tile
act of declaring and revealing a flower or season tile and in order drawing a replacement tile
(alt form)