## Meanings
1. The colourful part of a plant that produces seeds, often with a pleasant smell.
2. A plant that is grown for its flowers, especially a small one.
3. The best or finest part of a group or time of life.

## Examples
- She picked a yellow flower from the garden.
- We transplanted the flowers into a larger pot.
- She was cut down in the flower of her youth.

## Synonyms
- bloom
- blossom
- head
- pseudanthium

## Derived Forms
- aflower
- ball-flower
- basketflower
- beflower
- bellflower
- blanketflower
- breeches-flower
- bunchflower
- cone-flower
- coneflower
- cornflower
- crowflower

## Related Forms
- fleur
- flora
- floret
- florid
- florist
- floristics
- inflorescence

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰleh₃-
- Root: flour
- Root: flur
- Root: flōrem
- Root: *flōs

## Etymology
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.

## AI Etymology
Flower comes from Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom. In current use, the main senses are “The colourful part of a plant that produces seeds, often with a pleasant smell” and “A plant that is grown for its flowers, especially a small one”.

## Topics
- Nature & Landscape
- Plants & Agriculture

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