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flower
flower is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
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- 1noun
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
- 2noun
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom Corolla.
- 3noun
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
- 4noun
Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
- 5noun
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
- 6noun
A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- 7noun
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- 8noun
Menstrual discharges.
- 9intransitive verb
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
- 10intransitive verb
To come into the finest or fairest condition.
- 11intransitive verb
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
- 12intransitive verb
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
- 13transitive verb
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
- 14noun
reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- 15noun
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- 16noun
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- 17verb
produce or yield flowers
"The cherry tree bloomed"
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