floral

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   decorated with, made from, or resembling flowers

   The curtains have a bold floral pattern.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to flowers or to the flower-producing structures of a plant

   The botanist examined the orchid's floral organs.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the plant life characteristic of a particular region or period

   The survey identified several alpine floral elements in the valley.

Borrowed from French floral, from Latin floralis ("of flowers"), from flos, floris ("flower"). Its regional-botany sense is also influenced by flora, the plant life of a place.

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