# flower
## English

Picture dictionary :
flower :
plantplant
Legend:
1= style
2= ovary
3= receptaculum
4= stamen
5= petal
6= stigma
7= pistil
8= sepal
9= pedicel
Some flowers:
daffodildaffodil
dahliadahlia
lilylily
oleanderoleander
roserose
tuliptulip :

### Alternative forms

* flowre (obsolete)
* flow'r (archaic or poetic)

### Etymology 1

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 flour.
Partly displaced native Old English blostma, whence Modern English blossom.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈflaʊ.ə/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
* (India) IPA: /flaː(r)/, /flɐ.ʋə(r)/, /flɐ.wə(r)/
* Homophone: flour (for people who pronounce flower as one syllable, or flour as two)

#### Noun

flower (countable and uncountable, plural flowers)
* A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
** 1653, William Basse, “Clio, or The First Muse; in 9 Eglogues in Honor of 9 Vertues. As It was in His Dayes Intended. [Munday. Laurinella. Eglogue. Of True and Chast Love.]”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, →OCLC:O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot / How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: / Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot / That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.
** 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
* (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
** 1894, H. G. Wells, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid:You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant.
* A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
    We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.
* The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
    He always keeps a vase full of flowers in his office.
* (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
    The dogwoods are in flower this week.
* (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
** 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 106:[F]or ſtill, that my virgin-flower was yet uncrop'd never once enter'd into his head, and he would have thought it idling with time and words to have queſtion'd me upon it.
** 1893, Emily Gerard, The Voice of a Flower, page 44:So was it asserted, that whenever a maiden was destined to die unmarried, as surely would the plant wither away and perish, and if a dughter of the Renseccos lost her honour or had given away her flower to an unworthy lover, then would the flower be blighted overnight.
** 2018, Satu Lidman, Gender, Violence and Attitudes: Lessons from Early Modern Europe:In some local tradditions a fallen bride was married wearing a crown of straw rather than a garland of flowers, to symbolize her loss of virginity – the wilting of her flower.
** 2019, Shaun Barger, Mage Against the Machine, page 146:"Our flesh as one!" he laughed, speaking loudly. "Sweating bodies entwined in carnal passion! As I plunge myself deep into her lady flower, again and again and again— !"
* The best examples or representatives of a group.
** 1513, John Skelton, Agaynst the Scottes; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 116, lines 25–28:At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.
** 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
** 1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish:the flower of the chivalry of all Spain
** 1915, Katharine Tynan, The Golden Boy:In times of peace, so clean and bright, / And with a new-washed morning face, / He walked Pall Mall, a goodly sight, / The finished flower of all the race.
* The best state of things; the prime.
    She was in the flower of her life.
** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 156:A simple maiden in her flower / Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
** 1899, James [Mackintosh] Kennedy, “To Queen Alexandra”, in The Scottish and American Poems of James Kennedy, J[ohn] S[tuart] Ogilvie Publishing Company, […], page 197:NO lady fair in hall or bower, / In days when knighthood was in flower, / Or high-born dame with jewels set, / Or Tudor or Plantagenet, / E’er wore enwreath’d on form and face / Thy royal robe of richest grace.
* (obsolete) Flour.
** 1731, John Arbuthnot, “Of the Different Intentions to be Pursued in the Choice of Aliment in Different Constitutions”, in An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, prop[osition] VII, page 185:The Flovvers of Grains mix'd vvith VVater vvill make a ſort of Glue.
* (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
    the flowers of sulphur
** 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:Exposed to a moderate fire in subliming pots, [brimstone] rises all into dry, and almost tasteless, flowers; whereas being exposed to a naked fire, it affords store of a saline and fretting liquor.
* A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
* (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
** 1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing:I pointed out to the late Mr. Catherwood, of the firm of Caslon and Catherwood, the inconvenience of both these modes of cutting flowers,
* (in the plural, obsolete) Menstrual discharges.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 15:24:And if any man lye with her at all, and her flowers be vpon him, hee shall be vncleane seuen dayes: and all the bed whereon he lyeth, shall be vncleane.
* A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
** 2015, Sally Chiwuzie, Silent Symphonies:[…] she whispered leaning over and kissing her forehead; and then added, 'Mummy loves you, precious flower.'
** 2016, Barbara Ann Wright, Paladins of the Storm Lord:“Take care of yourself out there, Brown, you delicate flower.”
** 2021, Alica McKenna-Johnson, The Unicorn's Scion:“Come on, you delicate flower, we just need to nap. It will be fine.”
* (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Credit, recognition.
    to give someone his flowers; to get one's flowers
** 2010, M. Joyce Dickerson, A Tribute to 101 Incredible Women of Distinction Who Influenced My Life From My House to the White House:It has been my desire to find a way to express my gratitude to these women for quite some time but I really did not know how to give them their flowers as a method to tell them thanks.
** 2011, Tommy Hicks, Game of My Life Alabama Crimson Tide, page 149:I was able to give Coach Bryant his flowers while he was alive, and I have always been thankful I was able to do that.
** 2023, Torry Smith, Alpha's Unexpected Luna:Gonzalo managed to fake a smile. When will anyone ever give him his flowers? His hard work kept him and his kingdom this far. Wasn't anyone going to acknowledge the fact?
** 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan‎:Sabrina Carpenter is, finally, getting her flowers. Ever since demurely (I don't use that word lightly!!!) performing what would become the song of 2024 as part of her Coachella set—no, literally, "Espresso" just won the MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year—all eyes have been on 'Brina.
* (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

##### Usage notes

* In its most common sense as "a colorful conspicuous structure", the word flower includes many structures which are not anatomically flowers in the botanical sense. Sunflowers and daisies, for example, are structurally clusters of many small flowers that together appear to be a single flower (a capitulum, a form of pseudanthium), but these are considered to be flowers in the general sense. Likewise, the botanical definition of flower includes many structures that would not be considered a flower by the average person, such as the catkins of a willow tree or the downy flowers found atop a cattail stalk.

##### Synonyms

* (inflorescence that resembles a flower): head, pseudanthium
* (best examples): cream
* (best state of things): prime

##### Derived terms

* animal flower
* arcigera flower moth
* Bach flower remedy
* Bach flower therapy
* ball-flower
* ball flower
* balloon flower
* basketflower
* bat flower
* beflower
* bellflower
* Bill Gates' flower fly
* blanket flower
* blanketflower
* bone-eating snot flower worm
* bunchflower
* burst into flower
* butter flower
* cardinal flower
* carrion flower
* chocolate flower
* Christmas flower
* composite flower
* cone-flower
* cone flower
* coneflower
* corkscrew flower
* cornflower
* crowflower
* crown flower
* cuckooflower
* cupflower
* dayflower
* Easter flower
* egg flower soup
* elderflower
* electric flower car
* enflower
* everlasting flower
* fanflower
* fennel-flower
* fennelflower
* firecracker flower
* flameflower
* flamingo flower
* flannel flower
* flowerage
* flower arrangement
* flower-bearing
* flower bed
* flower beetle
* flower bond
* flower box
* flower bug
* flower car
* flower chafer
* flower child
* flower clock
* flower crown
* flower delice
* flower deluce
* flower-de-luce
* flowerer
* flower-fence
* flower fly
* flower-fly
* flowerful
* flower garden
* flower-gentle
* flower head
* flower hoe
* flowerhorn
* flowerkind
* flowerless
* flowerlet
* flowerlike
* flower longhorn
* flowerly
* flower mantis
* flower moon
* flower moth
* Flower Mound
* flowerness
* flower-of-an-hour
* flower of Jove
* flower of the flock
* flowerpecker
* flower-petal
* flower petal
* flowerpicking
* flowerpiece
* flowerpiercer
* flower power
* flower service
* flower sticks
* flower-strewn
* flower-sweet
* flower wall
* flower water
* flower weevil
* foamflower
* four o'clock flower
* four-o'clock flower
* frost flower
* gall flower
* gallflower
* ghostflower
* gilli-flower
* gilly-flower
* globeflower
* handflower
* honey flower
* hothouse flower
* incomplete flower
* in flower
* inside-out flower
* in the flower of one's youth
* Joseph's flower
* July-flower
* laceflower
* lantern flower
* largeflower
* leopard flower
* luxuriant flower
* mayflower
* mistflower
* moccasin flower
* monkey-flower
* monkeyflower
* moonflower
* muskflower
* nanoflower
* noon-flower
* noonflower
* overflower
* pagoda flower
* paperflower
* paper flower
* paschal flower
* pasque flower
* passion flower
* passion-flower
* Passion flower
* Passionflower
* Paul Allen's flower fly
* peacock flower
* pelican flower
* pencil flower
* pineapple flower
* pinkster flower
* polyflower
* pompon flower
* preflower
* prickly chaff flower
* pseudoflower
* red cardinal flower
* Redflower
* red flower
* red princess flower
* reflower
* rice flower
* Rogation-flower
* satinflower
* savanna flower
* savannah flower
* shellflower
* shoe flower
* skyflower
* sleep-flower
* sleep flower
* slipper flower
* snailflower
* spoonflower
* spurflower
* starfish flower
* starflower
* state flower
* strawflower
* sulphurflower
* tiger flower
* treasure flower
* trigger flower
* trumpet flower
* Tudor flower
* twinflower
* unflower
* united flower
* upflower
* velvet flower
* Venus's flower basket
* wall-flower
* wallflower
* wall flower
* wax flower
* waxflower
* windflower
* wishbone flower
* wood-shaving flower

##### Translations

A-Hmao: 𖼀𖽘𖾐
Abkhaz: ашәҭ (aŝʷt)
Acehnese: bungong
Afrikaans: blom (af)
Ainu: エプィケ (epuyke), エプィゲ (epuyge), トㇺ (tom), ノンノ (nonno)
Albanian: lule (sq) f
Amharic: አበባ (ʾäbäba)
Arabic: زَهْرَة (ar) f (zahra), زُهُور pl (zuhūr), أَزْهَار pl (ʔazhār), وَرْدَة f (warda)
Egyptian Arabic: وَرد m (ward) (collective), وَرْدَة f (warda) (singulative)
Aragonese: flor f
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܗܒܒܐ m (habbāḇāʾ), ܗܒܬܐ f (habb(ə)ṯāʾ)
Archi: тӏеӏ (tʼẹ)
Armenian: ծաղիկ (hy) (caġik)
Aromanian: floari f, floarã f, floare (roa-rup) f, lilici f, lilice (roa-rup) f, lãludã f
Assamese: ফুল (phul)
Asturian: flor (ast) f
Aukan: boomiki
Avar: тӏе (tʼe), тӏегь (tʼeh)
Azerbaijani: çiçək (az)
Baluchi: پل (pull)
Bashkir: сәскә (səskə)
Basque: lore (eu), lili (eu)
Bats: ბუბუკ (bubuḳ)
Belarusian: кве́тка f (kvjétka)
Bengali: ফুল (bn) (phul)
Bhojpuri: ফুল (phul)
Bikol Central: burak (bcl)
Bole: bitte
Breton: bleuñv (br) (collective), bleuñvienn f, bleunienn (br) f, boked (br) m, fleur (collective)
Bulgarian: цве́те (bg) m (cvéte)
Burmese: ပန်း (my) (pan:)
Buryat: сэсэг (seseg)
Carpathian Rusyn: цві́тя (cvítja), цві́ток m (cvítok), цві́тка f (cvítka)
Catalan: flor (ca) f
Cebuano: bulak
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵊⴷⴷⵉⴳ m (ajddig)
Central Dusun: bunga
Chakma: 𑄜𑄪𑄣𑄴 (phul)
Cham:
Eastern Cham: ꨝꨊꨭꨩ (bangu), ꨝꨪꨊꨭꨩ (bingu)
Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: chepeka
Chamorro: please add this translation if you can
Chechen: зезаг (zezag)
Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ (atsilasgi)
Chichewa: duwa
Chinese:
Cantonese: 花 (yue) (faa$^1$)
Dungan: хуа (hua), хуар (huar)
Eastern Min: 花 (huă)
Hakka: 花 (fâ)
Hokkien: 花 (zh-min-nan) (hoe, hoa), 花蕊 (zh-min-nan) (hoe-lúi)
Jin: 花 (hua$^1$)
Mandarin: 花 (zh) (huā), 花兒 / 花儿 (zh), 花朵 (zh) (huāduǒ), 花卉 (zh) (huāhuì)
Wu: 花
Chuvash: чечек (čeč̬ek)
Coptic:
Bohairic: ϩⲣⲏⲣⲓ f (hrēri)
Sahidic: ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ f (hrēre)
Corsican: fiore (co) m
Crimean Tatar: şeşek
Czech: květ (cs) m
Dalmatian: fiaur m
Danish: blomst (da) c
Dargwa: вава (vava)
Dhivehi: މާ (mā)
Drung: wvt
Dutch: bloem (nl) f
Dzongkha: མེ་ཏོག (me tog)
Egyptian: (wnb m)
Erzya: цеця (ceća)
Esperanto: floro (eo)
Estonian: lill (et)
Extremaduran: frol
Faroese: blóma (fo) f, blomstur (fo) n
Finnish: kukka (fi)
French: fleur (fr) f
Middle French: fleur f
Old French: flor f, flur f
Friulian: flôr, rose f
Galician: flor (gl) f, fror f, frol f
Georgian: ყვავილი (ka) (q̇vavili)
German: Blüte (de) f, Blume (de) f
Gorontalo: bunga (gor)
Greek: άνθος (el) n (ánthos), λουλούδι (el) n (louloúdi), ανθός (el) m (anthós)
Ancient: ἄνθος n (ánthos)
Gujarati: ફૂલ (gu) (phūl), પુષ્પ (puṣp), સુમન (suman)
Haitian Creole: flè
Hausa: fure (ha)
Hawaiian: pua
Hebrew: פֶּרַח (he) m (pérakh)
Higaonon: bulak
Hiligaynon: bulak
Hindi: फूल (hi) m (phūl), पुष्प (hi) m (puṣp)
Hittite: 𒀀𒇷𒂖 (a-le-el)
Hungarian: virág (hu)
Icelandic: blóm (is) n
Ido: floro (io)
Igbo: ìfulū
Ilocano: sabong
Indonesian: bunga (id), kembang (id), puspa (id)
Ingush: зиза (ziza)
Interlingua: flor
Inuktitut: nunangoark, perusiatsiark
Iranun: urak, sumping
Irish: bláth (ga), plúr m
Istriot: fiuri m pl
Italian: fiore (it) m
Iu Mien: biangh
Ivatan: savung
Japanese: 花 (ja) (はな, hana)
Jarai: bơnga
Jarawa: ohag
Javanese: kembang (jv)
Jeju: 고장 (gojang)
K'iche': kotz’i’j
Kaingang: ka fej
Kalmyk: цецг (tsetsg), цецгә (tsetsgä)
Kannada: ಹೂವು (kn) (hūvu)
Kapampangan: sampaga
Kashubian: kwiat m
Kazakh: гүл (gül)
Khasi: syntiew
Khiamniungan Naga: tāupūo
Khmer: ផ្កា (km) (phkaa)
Khmu: ຣາງ
Komi-Permyak: дзоридз (dźoridź)
Konkani: ಪುಲ್ (pul)
Korean: 꽃 (ko) (kkot)
Kumyk: чечек (çeçek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گوڵ (ckb) (gull)
Northern Kurdish: gul (ku), kulîlk (ku)
Kyrgyz: гүл (ky) (gül)
Ladakhi: མེན་ཏོག (men tog)
Lakota: wanahca
Lao: ດອກໄມ້ (dǭk mai), ດອກ (dǭk)
Latgalian: zīds m, puče f, puke f
Latin: flōs (la) m
Latvian: zieds (lv) m, puķe (lv) f
Lenape:
Unami: òtaès
Lezgi: цуьк (cük), гуьл (gül)
Ligurian: sciura f
Lithuanian: žiedas m, gėlė (lt) f
Lombard: fior m
Low German: Bloom (nds) f
Lü: ᦡᦸᧅᧈ (ḋoak¹), ᦡᦸᧅᧈᦺᦙᧉ (ḋoak¹may²)
Lubuagan Kalinga: sabong
Luganda: ekimuli
Luhya: liua
Luxembourgish: Blumm (lb) f
Maasai: ntapukai, ntapuka pl
Macedonian: цвет (mk) m (cvet)
Magahi: please add this translation if you can
Maguindanao: ulak
Maithili: please add this translation if you can
Malagasy: voninkazo (mg)
Malay: bunga (ms), kesuma
Malayalam: പൂവ് (ml) (pūvŭ), പുഷ്പം (ml) (puṣpaṁ), മലർ (ml) (malaṟ), അലർ (ml) (alaṟ), കുസുമം (ml) (kusumaṁ)
Maltese: fjura f
Manchu: ᡳᠯᡥᠠ (ilha)
Mansaka: bolak
Maori: putiputi, puāwai, puaka
Maranao: bolak
Marathi: फूल (phūl)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: пеледыш (peĺedyš)
Western Mari: please add this translation if you can
Mauritian Creole: fler
Mbyá Guaraní: poty
Middle English: flour
Middle Korean: 곶 (kwòc)
Minangkabau: bungo (min)
Mingrelian: პეული (ṗeuli)
Mirandese: frol
Moksha: панчф (pančf)
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цэцэг (mn) (ceceg)
Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠴᠡᠭ (čečeg)
Mwani: luwa
Nahuatl:
Central: xochitl
Central Huasteca: xochitl
Classical: xochitl
Coatepec: xuchi
Michoacán: xuchil
Nama: ǃkhas
Nanai: силакта (silakta)
Navajo: chʼil bílátah hózhóón, chʼilátah baa hózhónii
Neapolitan: fiore m
Nepali: फूल (ne) (phūl)
Newar: स्वां (swāṃ)
Ngunawal: gamburra pl
Norman: flieur f
North Frisian: (Mooring) blööm f
Northern Altai: чеджек (čedžek), дьакайак (dʹakayak), чакайак (čakayak)
Northern Mansi: сё̄ри (së̄ri)
Northern Sami: rássi, lieđđi
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blomst (no) m
Nynorsk: blom m, blome m, blomster m
Occitan: flor (oc) f, hlor (oc) f
Odia: ଫୁଲ (or) (phula), ପୁଷ୍ପ (or) (pushpa)
Ojibwe: waabigwan, waabigwaniin pl
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цвѣтъ m (cvětŭ)
Old East Slavic: цвѣтъ m (cvětŭ)
Old English: blostma m
Old Javanese: wunga, kĕmbang
Old Occitan: flor f
Old Portuguese: chor, flor, fror
Oromo: abaaboo
Ossetian: дидинӕг (didinæg)
Ottoman Turkish: چیچك (çiçek)
Pacoh: piêr
Palauan: bung
Pali: puppha n
Devanagari: पुप्फ n (puppha)
Pangasinan: dalapdap
Papiamentu: flor
Pashto: ګل m (gul)
Persian:
Dari: گُل (gul)
Iranian Persian: گُل (gol), اِسْپَرْغَم (esparğam)
Pipil: shuchit, xuchit
Plautdietsch: Bloom (nds) f
Polabian: kjot m
Polish: kwiat (pl) m inan
Portuguese: flor (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਫੁੱਲ m (phulla)
Shahmukhi: پُھلّ m (phull)
Purepecha: tsïtsïki
Quechua: tuktu, t'ika, sisa (qu), wayta, waita
Rohingya: fúl
Romagnol: fiôr m
Romani: luludǐ f
Romanian: floare (ro) f
Romansch: flur
Russian: цвето́к (ru) m (cvetók), цветы́ (ru) pl (cvetý)
Samoan: fuga (sm)
Sango: kongö (sg)
Sanskrit: पुष्प (sa) n (puṣpa), पुल्ल (sa) (pulla), कुसुमम् (sa) (kusumam), प्रसूनम् (sa) (prasūnam), सुमम् (sa) (sumam)
Santali: ᱯᱷᱩᱞ (phul), ᱵᱟᱦᱟ (baha)
Sardinian: fiòre, flore
Scots: flouer
Scottish Gaelic: blàth m, dìthean m, flùr m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цвет m, цвијет m
Roman: cvet (sh) m, cvijet (sh) m
Shan: မွၵ်ႇ (shn) (màuk)
Sherpa: མེན་ཏོག (men tog)
Shona: ruva
Sicilian: ciuri (scn) m
Sikkimese: མེན་ཏོག (men tog)
Silesian: kwjot m
Sindhi: گلٍ (sd) (gilaa)
Sinhalese: මල (si) (mala)
Slovak: kvet m
Slovene: cvet (sl) m
Somali: ubax (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kwětk m
Upper Sorbian: kwět m
Sotho: palesa (st)
Southern Altai: чечек (čeček)
Southern Sami: plåamstere, rïesege
Spanish: flor (es) f
Sranan Tongo: bromki
Sundanese: kembang (su), puspa
Svan: მუღვა̈ჲ (muɣväy)
Swahili: ua (sw) class 5/6
Swedish: blomma (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠚꠥꠟ (fúl)
Tagalog: bulaklak (tl)
Tahitian: pua, tiare
Tai Nüa: ᥛᥩᥐᥱ (mǒak)
Tajik: гул (tg) (gul)
Tamil: மலர் (ta) (malar), பூ (ta) (pū)
Taos: pȍbénemą
Tarantino: fiure m
Tarifit: ṯanewwašt
Tatar: гөл (tt) (göl), чәчәк (tt) (çäçäk)
Tausug: sumping
Tày: bjoóc, hoa
Telugu: పువ్వు (te) (puvvu), పుష్పము (te) (puṣpamu)
Ternate: saya
Tetum: funan
Thai: ดอก (th) (dɔ̀ɔk), ดอกไม้ (th) (dɔ̀ɔk-máai), บุษบา (th) (bùt-sà-baa)
Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག (me tog)
Tigrinya: ዕምባባ (ʿəmbaba)
Tocharian B: pyāpyo
Tongan: matala'i 'akau
Tumbuka: luwa
Turkish: çiçek (tr)
Turkmen: gül
Udmurt: сяська (śaśka)
Ukrainian: кві́тка (uk) f (kvítka), цвіт (uk) m (cvit)
Urdu: پُھول m (phūl), پُشْپ m (puśp) (rare)
Uyghur: گۈل (ug) (gül), چېچەك (chëchek)
Uzbek: chechak (uz), gul (uz)
Venetan: fior (vec)
Veps: änik
Vietnamese: hoa (vi) (花 (vi)), bông (vi)
Volapük: flor (vo)
Walloon: fleur (wa)
Welsh: blodyn (cy) m
West Frisian: blom (fy) c
Western Pwo: ဖီၫ
White Hmong: paj
Wolof: ntortor
Wutunhua: maidok, hu
Xhosa: intyatyambo
Yagnobi: гул (gul)
Yakan: sumping
Yakut: чэчик (cecik), сибэкки (sibekki)
Yiddish: בלום f (blum), קווייט m (kveyt)
Yoruba: òdòdó
Yucatec Maya: lool, nikte’
Zealandic: blomme f
Zhuang: va
Zulu: imbali class 9/10 :

#### Verb

flower (third-person singular simple present flowers, present participle flowering, simple past and past participle flowered)
* (intransitive) To put forth blooms.
    This plant flowers in June.
* (transitive) To decorate with pictures of flowers.
* (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:when flowr'd my youthful spring
** 1940 Mahadev Desai, translator, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography, Part III (IX) The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part III/Simple Life, original published 1927-1929
    It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course.
** 2012, Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography, page 43:In life after life of this now-expanded circle of women artists, writers and revolutionaries, the same appeared: a flowing of creative insight and vision seemed the follow a sexual flowering.
* (archaic, intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:That beer did flower a little.
* (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
** [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:observations which have flowered off

##### Synonyms

* (to put forth blooms): bloom, blossom
* (reach a state of achievement): flourish

##### Derived terms

* flowering ash
* flowering desert
* flowering dogwood
* flowering plant
* flowering rush
* flowering tea
* night-flowering jasmine

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* aflower
* corpse flower
* flowerbed
* flower girl
* flowerpot
* flowery
* passionflower
* sunflower
* wild flower, wildflower

#### Related terms

* fleur
* flora, Flora
* floret
* florid
* florist
* floristics
* inflorescence

#### See also

* Category:Flowers

### Etymology 2

flow +‎ -er

#### Alternative forms

* flow-er

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfləʊə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈfloʊɚ/

#### Noun

flower (plural flowers)
* (rare, especially crosswording) Something that flows, such as a river.
** 1886–1890, J. D. Rees, Narratives of Tours in India, page 340:
    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.
** 1888, John T. White, The Seventh Book of Cæsar’s Gallic War with a Vocabulary, page 224:Rhŏdănus, i, m. The Rhodanus (now Rhone); a river of Gaul [prob. a northern word, meaning “Swift-flower or Swift-passer”].
** 1893, Arthur A. MacDonnell, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, page 340:sará-yu, f. [swift flower: √sri] N. of a river (in Oudh), in C. gnly. û.
** 1959, Scottish Studies, volumes 3-4, page 92:one that flows with force and speed; the fast flower
** 2019 August 24, Radio Times Crossword:Bonnie partner with Scottish flower (5) [as a clue for CLYDE]

##### Usage notes

* The term is used with this meaning almost exclusively in cryptic crossword clues, where it generally stands in for the name of a specific river.

### Anagrams

* Fowler, Wolfer, flowre, fowler, reflow, wolfer

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flower.

### Noun

flower
* someone who is allowed to participate in games but cannot become it; usually a younger sibling of a player who may or may not fully grasp the mechanics of the game
* (mahjong) flower or season tile
* (mahjong) act of declaring and revealing a flower or season tile and in order drawing a replacement tile

## Middle English
### Noun

flower
* Alternative form of flour