Phrase Hound found 113 phrases and 73 compound words that contain flowers. The most common are listed below. Open flowers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 113
- language of flowersSecret communication through the use of flowers; floriography.
- fruit and flowersIllicit purchased items such as recreational drugs or prostitutes.
- Send Flowers
- hearts and flowersIdeal romance.
- war of flowersSynonym of flower war: A kind of ritual war fought intermittently between the Aztec Triple Alliance and its enemies.
- wild flowersplural of wild flower: A wild (uncultivated) flowering plant.
- Cut flowers
- Day-flowers
- flowers of zincSynonym of zinc oxide: An amorphous solid, ZnO, white when pure but often pale yellow, used in pigments and cosmetics.
- Christmas flowersplural of Christmas flower: Christmas rose (Helleborus species)
- paper flowersplural of paper flower: A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
- state flowersplural of state flower: The flower officially chosen as a symbol for a state of the United States.
- flowers of sulfuryellow flakes of elemental sulfur, either as mined from a fumarole etc, or obtained by distillation
- flowers of sulphurAlternative spelling of flowers of sulfur: yellow flakes of elemental sulfur, either as mined from a fumarole etc, or obtained by distillation
- flowers of wineSmall powdery flecks of mould on grapes used to make wine.
- April showers bring May flowersThe month of April, traditionally a rainy period, gives way to May, when flowers will bloom because of the water provided to them by the April rains.
- tiger flowersplural of tiger flower: Any of the genus Tigridia of large, showy streaked flowers.
- Passion flowersplural of Passion flower: Alternative letter-case form of passion flower.
- gold flowersplural of gold flower: Synonym of curry plant (“Helichrysum stoechas”)
- July-flowersplural of July-flower: Clove pink.
- red flowersplural of red flower: A flower which is red, such as one which yields red dye.
- united flowersplural of united flower: A flower of a kind that has the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- wall-flowersplural of wall-flower: Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
- composite flowersplural of composite flower: A flower that is made up of multiple simpler flowers; an inflorescence of the pseudanthium type.
- ball flowersplural of ball flower: An embellishment found on medieval buildings, consisting of a ball enclosed in the petals of a flower.
Compound words 73
- wildflowersplural of wildflower: A wild (uncultivated) flowering plant.
- sunflowersplural of sunflower: Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
- wallflowersplural of wallflower: Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
- flowerstemAlternative form of flower stem: The stem of a flower.
- ballflowersplural of ballflower: An embellishment found on medieval buildings, consisting of a ball enclosed in the petals of a flower.
- basketflowersplural of basketflower: Any of the thistle-like flowering plants in the genus Plectocephalus.
- beeflowersplural of beeflower: Any of certain shrubs of the genus Cleomella.
- Belflowersplural of Belflower: A surname.
- bellflowersplural of bellflower: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
- blanketflowersplural of blanketflower: Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.