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.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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, and Corolla.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
- noun. A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
- noun. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- noun. Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- noun. Menstrual discharges.
- intransitive verb. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
- intransitive verb. To come into the finest or fairest condition.
- intransitive verb. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
- intransitive verb. To come off as flowers by sublimation.
- transitive verb. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
- noun. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- noun. a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- noun. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- verb. produce or yield flowers
"The cherry tree bloomed"
Synonyms
bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flower:
Common word forms
flowers, flowered, flowerer, flowerful, flowering, flowerless
Words from these letters
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