How to spell flower

Flower is spelled F-L-O-W-E-R.

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What it means: Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants, often colorful.

In a sentence: The bee landed on the yellow flower.

Not to be confused with: flour, a different word.

Same family: flowering, flowered, flowerless, flowering-plant, blossom. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "flower" comes from the noun "flower," which traces back through Old French "flor" to Latin "florem," meaning "blossom" or "bloom." Over time, English turned the noun into a verb, so something that has a flower can also "flower" or begin to bloom.

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