OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1856

flower

/ˈflaʊ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
flor
A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant t…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1857

flower

/ˈflaʊ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
florecer • florescer (disused)
To put forth blooms.
This plant flowers in June.