Flowers Quotes

Flowers refers to a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. It commonly describes a reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil, a plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood, and the best examples or representatives of a group, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to the best state of things; the prime, flour, and a figure of speech; an ornament of style, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Flowers as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc, something that flows, such as a river, to put forth blooms, to decorate with pictures of flowers, and to reach a state of full development or achievement, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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