paper flower

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
    — prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ...
  2. A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.
    — There is my Quaker Aunt, A Paper-Flower, — with a formal border / No breeze could e'er disorder, — Pouting at that old beau—the Winter Cherry, / A pucker'd berry; / And Box, like a tough-liv'd annuitant
  3. A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.
    — Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, flower.
    — He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel.

词形变化

paper flowers plural paper-flower alternative paperflower alternative
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