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fleuron

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fleu⋅ron

  [flur-on, floor-]
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–noun
1. a floral motif, as one used as a terminal point or in a decorative series on an object.
2. Printing. flower (def. 6).
Origin:
1350–1400; < F; OF floron, equiv. to flor flower + -on n. suffix; r. ME flouroun < OF

flow⋅er

  [flou-er]
–noun
1. the blossom of a plant.
2. Botany.
a. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color.
b. an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.
3. a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.
4. state of efflorescence or bloom: Peonies were in flower.
5. an ornament representing a flower.
6. Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, esp. a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.
7. an ornament or adornment.
8. the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England.
9. the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American youth.
10. the finest or choicest product or example.
11. flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, esp. as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.
–verb (used without object)
12. to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.
13. to come out into full development; mature.
–verb (used with object)
14. to cover or deck with flowers.
15. to decorate with a floral design.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME flour flower, best of anything < OF flor, flour, flur < L flōr- (s. of flōs). Cf. blossom

Synonyms:
13. develop, flourish, bloom, blossom, ripen.
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flower

The part of a plant that produces the seed. It usually contains petals, a pistil, and pollen-bearing stamens.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Word Origin & History

flower  (n.)
c.1200, from O.Fr. flor, from L. florem (nom. flos) "flower" (see flora), from PIE base *bhlo- "to blossom, flourish" (cf. M.Ir. blath, Welsh blawd "blossom, flower," O.E. blowan "to flower, bloom"). Modern spelling is 14c. Ousted O.E. cognate blostm (see blossom). Also used from 13c. in sense of "finest part or product of anything." The verb is first recorded c.1225. Flower children "gentle hippies" is from 1967.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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