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# nosegay

«nosegay» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small bunch of flowers, held or worn in the hand** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (nosegays)

### meaning for a pupil

A small bunch of flowers, held or worn in the hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nosegay/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a girl brings a nosegay of flowers to a grave or a church.

### examples

- She carried a nosegay of violets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nosegay/#x1)
- The bride held a nosegay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nosegay/#x2)
- He picked a nosegay for his mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nosegay/#x3)

### note

a nosegay is one bunch; the flowers in it can be counted, but the bunch itself counts as one.

### Trees and pragmatics

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