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flower

[flau-er] / ˈflaʊ ər /




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“You can say, ‘Ofelia lived in the other kingdom,’ but in the real world, there’s only one tiny flower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

At the time, critics were characterizing O’Keeffe’s flower pictures as feminine; in response, she said, she would create “those dismal-colored paintings like the men.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He notes that the system is good at picking out very tiny flower buds, which are hard to see at a glance with the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He also discovers the unlikeliest of love stories, making the appealingly discursive, touchingly oddball “History” feel like a bent, colorful flower poking out of the pavement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Your first trip to the forest—the smell of pine and burning wood. The first flower you ever sniffed—petunias, a red rose, a lily. The scent of your grandmother's house—warm bread and sugar.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

At a portrait of Yevgeni Postel, a 25-year-old student, his mother laid a bouquet of flowers and broke down sobbing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Shannon made a comment about how the songs were grouped together thematically — plants and flowers and I forget the third element, which struck me as a thoroughly R.E.M. way of doing things.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Tributes have been left outside the centre, including a teddy bear and flowers on a bench.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

In their role as nighttime pollinators, they distribute pollen from the flowers of numerous food-producing plants, carrying it on their fur and faces, according to the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The trees and bushes on the island were exploding with flowers, and little birds flew past with blades of grass in their beaks for building their nests.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The parade theme was “Tales of the Seven Seas,” and in the downpour, 30 flowered nymphs were washed off one float.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

A veil rested on their heads, held by a satin flowered headband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Glass vases with metallic finishes of unnatural blue, green and gold are drowned in palm leaf motifs, ready to be flowered.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

They flowered and produced fruit as expected, and there were no changes in fruit weight, shape, or sweetness.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

Roza scooped her ancient flowered bag off the belt and trailed the students to a man who held a placard with the name of the university written on it.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Scientists have identified a remarkable new species of leafless flowering plant growing on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It seemed a bright enough place to Ged at first, the house under the flowering trees.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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