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Flower

noun

A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.

Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. Synonyms: bloom, blossom.

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime.

verb

(past & past part. flowered; pres. part. flowering)

Produce or yield flowers. Synonyms: bloom, blossom.

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... after something she could come down on. The moon wasn't shinin' very bright though, and there didn't seem to be any boxes or barrels lyin' around loose, so I wasn't makin' much headway. But after awhile I gets hold of something that was the very ticket. It was one of these wooden stands for flower-pots. I lugs that over and sets it ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

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— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews

... glanced down. And saw for the first time that the mirrored acres were studded, flower-like, with ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... enrichment of his moral and spiritual nature. He is still ever ready to lend a helping hand. He has not lived merely for wealth and enjoyment, but happiness, lasting and true springs up in his soul as naturally as a flower leaps into blossoms, and whether he is loved or hated, honored or forgotten, he constantly endeavors to make the world better by his example and gladdened by his presence feeling that if every one would be faithful to duty ...

— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... and white and crimson, were in every sunny nook and corner, and purple hyacinths and pure white Easter lilies filled the old kitchen with fragrance. The garden, too, showed signs of beauty, for already the first crocus had pushed its brave little head through the brown earth of the flower beds. ...

— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

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