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# flower

«flower» in Mova's school dictionary: **the coloured part of a plant that blooms, like a rose or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (flower, flowers); verb (flower, flowers, flowered)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flower is the coloured part of a plant that blooms, like a rose or a tulip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#m1)

2) A flower is a plant grown for its flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#m2)

3) To flower is to make flowers: «The tree flowers in spring». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted: picked, planted, put in vases or sold; roses, tulips and orchids are flowers; in science, flowers make seeds, and bees carry pollen between them; phrases: «a bunch of flowers», «flower bed», «in flower», «wild flowers»

### examples

- She picked 24 flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x1)
- She put the flowers in 4 vases equally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x2)
- There are 7 roses and 5 tulips; how many flowers? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x3)
- Each bouquet has 6 flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x4)
- Bees visit flowers to collect nectar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x5)
- We planted flowers in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x6)
- The cherry tree flowers in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x7)
- Some wild flowers are poisonous, so don't eat them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x8)
- Pictures and flowers were scattered about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/#x9)

### note

Countable: a flower, flowers. A thing counted and a group name: roses + tulips = flowers. «put in vases equally» divides. Trap: «how many flowers» may mean all the kinds together. Trap: «flower» and «flour» sound the same.

### In the corpora

- [Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/)
- [Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/9/)
- [Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/15/)
- [You do not have to feel sad about a famous person you never knew; the people laying flowers knew their songs or films.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.