flower
- IPA[ˈflaʊə]
英式
- the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals).；a flower together with its stalk, picked for use as a decoration
- (of a plant) produce flowers; bloom；induce (a plant) to produce flowers.
verb: flower, 3rd person present: flowers, gerund or present participle: flowering, past tense: flowered, past participle: flowered
noun: flower, plural noun: flowers
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals). 同義詞
- ▪ a flower together with its stalk, picked for use as a decoration a bunch of flowers
- ▪ the state or period in which a plant's flowers have developed and opened the roses were just coming into flower
- ▪ Northern English informal used as a friendly form of address, especially to a young girl or woman all right then, flower?
- 2. the finest individuals out of a number of people or things he wasted the flower of French youth on his dreams of empire 同義詞 反義詞
動詞
- 1. (of a plant) produce flowers; bloom Michaelmas daisies can flower as late as October
- ▪ induce (a plant) to produce flowers.
- 2. be in or reach an optimum stage of development; develop fully and richly she flowered into as striking a beauty as her mother
