<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the blossom of a plant: She picked a bunch of flowers for her mother.</li><li>He always wore a flower in his lapel, usually a carnation.</li><li>Botany: the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, especially when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color.</li><li>an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.</li><li>a plant considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty: If it doesn’t rain today, I’ll need to water the flowers in the garden.</li><li>an ornament or decoration representing a flower: She doesn’t like any fabric that has flowers on it.</li><li>The classroom walls were decorated with cheery flowers painted by the children.</li><li>an ornament or adornment: I felt like I was being told to be just a flower, but I wanted to have input and share my ideas.</li><li>Also called fleuron, floret.</li><li>Printing: an ornamental piece of type, especially a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.</li><li>the choicest or finest part, member, or example: Emigration took the flower of the nation’s youth, desperate for a better life.</li><li>It was a love poem, calling her “the flower of humanity” and other romantic epithets.</li><li>the bud of the cannabis or hemp plant, or such buds collectively, secreting over 100 different cannabinoids: For testing purposes, you only need to bring in one cannabis flower for analysis.</li><li>This is high-quality cannabis flower, with 12 to 18 percent THC.</li><li>flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry: a substance in the form of a fine powder, especially as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom: This shrub usually flowers in June.</li><li>to come into full development; mature: Regular air passenger service did not flower till after World War II.</li><li>(used with object) to decorate with a floral design: The skirt of the dress is flowered.</li><li>to cover or deck with flowers: For the wedding photos, they flowered the church steps with roses.</li></ul>