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- Botany the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals)【植】花。
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- a brightly coloured and conspicuous example of such a part of a plant together with its stalk, typically used with others as a decoration or gift（作装饰或礼物用的带枝干的）花。
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- mass noun the state or period in which a plant's flowers have developed and opened开花（期）：
the roses were just coming into flower.
玫瑰刚开始开花。
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- Brit. informal used as a friendly form of address, especially to a young girl or woman〈英, 非正式〉姑娘（尤用于友好地称呼女孩或年轻妇女）：
'course you have, flower.'
“当然你有, 姑娘。”
no obj.
1- (of a plant) produce flowers; bloom（植物）开花：
Michaelmas daisies can flower as late as October.
紫菀甚至迟至10月也能开花。
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- figurative be in or reach an optimum stage of development; develop fully and richly〈喻〉成熟; 盛行, 繁荣兴旺：
she flowered into as striking a beauty as her mother
她长成跟她妈妈一样的美人
as noun flowering the flowering of Viennese intellectual life.维也纳学术生活的繁荣兴盛。
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- with obj. induce (a plant) to produce flowers使（植物）开花。
短语
the flower of
- the finest individuals out of a number of people or things精英, 优秀分子; 精华, 最好的部分：
he wasted the flower of French youth on his dreams of empire.
为实现帝国之梦, 他糟蹋了法国的青年精英。
派生词
flowerless
adjectiveflower-like
adjective词源
Middle English flour, from Old French flour, flor, from Latin flos, flor-. The original spelling was no longer in use by the late 17th cent. except in its specialized sense 'ground grain' （see FLOUR）.