Definitions
produce or yield flowers
Word origin
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 fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer10 curated clues
01“Bloom in a garden”6 letters
02“Bloom in a vase”6 letters
03“Bloom on a stem”6 letters
04“Colorful bloom”6 letters
05“Colorful garden bloom”6 letters
06“Colorful plant part”6 letters
07“Garden bloom”6 letters
08“Garden blossom”6 letters
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