Flourish vs. Flower

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To prosper or fare well.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.

Flourishverb

(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

Flourishverb

(transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

Flourishverb

(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

Flourishverb

(intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

Flourishverb

To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourishnoun

A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

Flourishnoun

An ornamentation.

Flourishnoun

(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

Flourishnoun

(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

Flourishverb

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

Flourishverb

To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

Flourishverb

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Flourishverb

To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

Flourishverb

To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

Flourishverb

To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

Flourishverb

To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourishverb

To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

Flourishverb

To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Flourishverb

To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

Flourishverb

To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

Flourishnoun

A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

Flourishnoun

Decoration; ornament; beauty.

Flourishnoun

Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

Flourishnoun

A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Flourishnoun

A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

Flourishnoun

The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

Flourishnoun

a showy gesture;

Flourishnoun

an ornamental embellishment in writing

Flourishnoun

a display of ornamental speech or language

Flourishnoun

the act of waving

Flourishnoun

(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments;

Flourishverb

grow stronger;

Flourishverb

gain in wealth

Flourishverb

move or swing back and forth;

Flowernoun

A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

Flowernoun

(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

Flowernoun

A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

Flowernoun

(usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.

Flowernoun

The vulva, especially the labia majora.

Flowernoun

(idiomatic) The best examples or representatives of a group.

Flowernoun

The best state of things; the prime.

Flowernoun

(obsolete) Flour.

Flowernoun

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.

Flowernoun

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Flowernoun

(printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

Flowernoun

(in the plural) Menstrual discharges.

Flowernoun

(rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

Flowerverb

To put forth blooms.

Flowerverb

To decorate with pictures of flowers.

Flowerverb

To reach a state of full development or achievement.

Flowerverb

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

Flowerverb

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flowernoun

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

Flowernoun

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

Flowernoun

The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

Flowernoun

Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

Flowernoun

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

Flowernoun

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Flowernoun

Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

Flowernoun

Menstrual discharges.

Flowerverb

To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

Flowerverb

To come into the finest or fairest condition.

Flowerverb

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

Flowerverb

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flowerverb

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flowernoun

a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

Flowernoun

reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

Flowernoun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Flowerverb

produce or yield flowers;

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.