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Wallflower

noun

Any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers.

Perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum. Synonyms: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri.

Remains on sidelines at social event.

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"Wallflower" Quotes from Famous Books

... headland two hundred feet above the waves that now break a mile away, the Lonely Tower, now merged in the huge dilapidated Edwardian keep that broods over Herion. When those blocks of cyclopaean masonry should be tufted with the golden wallflower and the perfumed wild geranium, and starred with the delicate blossom of the lavender scabious and the wild marguerite, then the little blue bottle that stood in the deep table-drawer near the big ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... and wallflower, grown Matted and massed together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescoes steep'd In subterranean damps, where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight:—Temples, baths, or halls— Pronounce ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... did!" She seated herself on the arm of his chair; one of her big puffed sleeves almost covered his face. "Don't think I was a wallflower, either; I wasn't. I went out on the floor three times. Mr. Brower walked me around once, and Mr. Bingham waltzed with me once. And so did Truedy. Oh, poppy, he was so good to me! And he was the only young man there with violet eyes—I ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

Words linked to "Wallflower" : flower, shrinking violet, Cheiranthus allionii, shy person, Siberian wall flower, Erysimum allionii, Erysimum, Cheiranthus, genus Erysimum, genus Cheiranthus