- flow‧er [countable]
- 1
a coloured or white part that a plant or tree produces before fruit or seeds : - a lovely rose bush with delicate pink flowers
- fields full of beautiful wild flowers
- 2
a small plant that produces beautiful flowers : - He wasn't interested in growing flowers in the garden.
- She bent down and picked a flower.
- bunch/bouquet of flowers
- The first night we met he gave me a bunch of flowers.
- a beautiful flower arrangement (=flowers arranged together in an attractive way)
- 3
in flower
a plant or tree that is in flower has flowers on it : - It was May, and the apple trees were all in flower.
- Roses start to come into flower in June.
- 4
the flower of something
literarythe best part of something : - young men killed in the flower of their youth
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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