Meaning & use
flower
The colorful, often fragrant part of a plant that produces seeds or fruit.
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Bright yellow flowers covered the hillside after the spring rains ended.
She arranged fresh flowers in a vase for the dinner table.
A note on using this word
As a verb, flower means to bloom or, figuratively, to develop fully, as in her talent flowered in college.
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