英:['flaʊəlɪs]
美:['flaʊəlɪs]
英:['flaʊəlɪs]
美:['flaʊəlɪs]
词根:flower
adj.flowery 花的;华丽的;绚丽的;多花的
flowering 开花的
flowered 用花装饰的;花开着的
n.flower 花;精华;开花植物
flowering 开花;饰以花
vi.flower 成熟,发育;开花;繁荣;旺盛
vt.flower 使开花;用花装饰
noun
the specialized part of an angiospermous plant that occurs singly or in clusters, possesses whorls of often colorful petals or sepals, and bears the reproductive structures (such as stamens or pistils) involved in the development of seeds and fruit : blossom
a cluster of small flowers growing closely together that resembles and is often viewed as a single flower : inflorescence
a hydrangea flower
a plant grown or valued for its flowers
planted flowers in the front yard
a cut stem of a plant with its flower
a bouquet of flowers
bloom entry 2 sense 1b
lilacs in full flower
the best part or example
the flower of our youth
the finest most vigorous period
wasted the flower of their lives
a state of blooming or flourishing
in full flower
flowers plural a finely divided powder produced especially by condensation or sublimation
flowers of sulfur
verb
intransitive verb
develop
flowered into young womanhood
flourish sense 2
to produce flowers : blossom
transitive verb
to cause to bear flowers
to decorate with flowers or floral designs
Noun Middle English flour, flur "blossom of a plant, prime of life, best of a class, ground grain free of bran," borrowed from Anglo-French flour, flur (also continental Old French), going back to Latin flōr-, flōs "flower, bloom, flourishing condition, choicest part, best of a class," going back to Indo-European *bhleh3-os, s-stem derivative from the verbal base *bhleh3- "bloom, break into flower" — more at blow >entry 3 Verb Middle English flouren "(of a plant) to blossom, to bloom, be vigourous," derivative of flour, flur flour >entry 1
The first known use of flower was in the 13th century
fluenoun
an enclosed passageway for directing a currentespecially: a channel in a chimney for carrying flame and smoke to the outer air
fluctuateverb
to move up and down or back and forth like a wave
to be constantly changing especially up and down
fluctuateverb
to move up and down or back and forth like a wave
to be constantly changing especially up and down
flubverb
botch, bungle
flunoun
influenza sense 1
any of several virus diseases that are something like a cold
floweryadjective
full of or covered with flowers
full of fine words or phrases
flowery language
flower1 of 2noun
a specialized plant part that occurs singly or in clusters, possesses often colorful petals or sepals, and bears reproductive organs involved in the development of seeds and fruit : blossom
a cluster of small flowers growing closely together that resembles and is often viewed as a single flower : inflorescence
a hydrangea flower
a plant grown or valued for its flowers
planted flowers
a cut stem of a plant with its flower
a bouquet of flowers
the best part or example
in the flower of his youth
flower2 of 2verb
to produce flowers : bloom
flourish entry 1 sense 1
flowerpotnoun
a pot in which to grow plants
flower1 of 2noun
a specialized plant part that occurs singly or in clusters, possesses often colorful petals or sepals, and bears reproductive organs involved in the development of seeds and fruit : blossom
a cluster of small flowers growing closely together that resembles and is often viewed as a single flower : inflorescence
a hydrangea flower
a plant grown or valued for its flowers
planted flowers
a cut stem of a plant with its flower
a bouquet of flowers
the best part or example
in the flower of his youth
flower2 of 2verb
to produce flowers : bloom
flourish entry 1 sense 1
1 Alas, for the graves that are not found where willows grow within cemetery gates! for the flowerless graves we often weep over in our daily life!
2 On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies.
3 Her daughter opted for a black knit dress adorned with large flowers.
4 Any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores.
蕨,蕨类植物数量较大的有根、茎以及复叶的无花、无子管状植物,通过孢子再生。
5 All things are cold and white, and my soul flies only above fresh fields of flowerless snow.
6 He sent her a bouquet of flowers.
7 Plants may be divided into two great groups, the flowerless plants and flowering plants.
8 Spore, spōr, n. the reproductive body in flowerless plants like the fern, analogous to the seeds of ordinary flowering plants, but containing no embryo: a germ, a seed, a source of being generally.—adjs.
9 The first jump—when the vein density in fossil leaves of flowering plants first exceeded vein density in the leaves of flowerless plants—took place approximately one hundred million years ago.
10 His genius flowered at the university.
11 “Blind”—A term applied to plants which turn out flowerless.
12 We planted flowers in the garden.
13 Writing of these flowerless beauties, I am tempted to exclaim again, "Happy the humble!"
14 These form the great group which is often spoken of as "flowerless plants."
15 Without, the season had bloomed into greater luxuriance,—within, the flowers now rarely came; and Faith's flowerless dress and belt and hair, said of themselves that Mr. Linden was away.
16 The blue-bell and fox-glove were growing on every hand, and the heath throve in luxuriance, but, flowerless, seemed to miss the golden blossoms of the furze.
17 It is a cellular, flowerless plant, nourished by the mycelium which permeates the soil or other substances on which the fungus or mushroom grows.
18 I hear no more the swish of silks Along the marble walks; The autumn wind blows sharp and cold Among the flowerless stalks.
19 Atop a 7,000-foot mountain pass for a weekend studying the flowerless plants, they donned rubber boots to wade through swamps, gazed at moss under microscopes and listened to moss lectures.
20 A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.