paper flower
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
noun
A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.
noun
A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, flower.
Example Sentences
- "prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ..."
- "Families within the order Centrospermae, including taxa like prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) and paper flower (Bougainvillea sp.), display transient red coloration"
- "Introduction / Common Name: Bougainvillea, Paper Flower / Scientific Name: Bougainvillea glabra / Family: Nyctaginaceae"
- "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"
- "Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate."
- "He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel."