flower
noun
- reproductive plant organ
- decorative plant
verb
- to develop or mature fully
- to produce flowers
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊə/ / /ˈfloʊɚ/ / /ˈflaʊ̯.ə/ / [ˈflaʊ̯.ə] / /ˈflawə/
name
Etymology: * As an occupational English surname, from the noun flower, and sometimes flour. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English flo (“arrow”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Floor, itself from the noun floor. * As a Welsh surname, Anglicized from Llywarch.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.
noun
Etymology: From flow + -er.
- Something that flows, such as a river.
“Leaving the weavers’ village behind you, and crossing the sandy bed of the Vengavati or ‘Swift-flower,’ which, however, contained not a drop of water, you reach the ancient Jain temple.”
“Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”].”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
- To put forth blooms.
“This plant flowers in June.”
- To decorate with pictures of flowers.
- To reach a state of full development or achievement.
“when flowr'd my youthful spring”
“It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.”
- To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
“That beer did flower a little.”
- To come off as flowers by sublimation.
“observations which have flowered off”