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bachelor's button

bachelor's button

8.2
A tropical plant with bright rose, red, or purple flowers that keep their color when dried
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : globo de oro
  • The vibrant blooms of the bachelor's button make it a favorite in dried flower arrangements.

Examples

  • Gardeners often plant bachelor's button for its long-lasting and colorful blossoms.

  • She picked a bachelor's button to add to her bouquet of wildflowers.

  • The garden was filled with beautiful bachelor's buttons.

  • Look at those stunning bachelor's buttons in the garden!

  • Gardeners often plant bachelor's button for its long-lasting and colorful blossoms.

  • The vibrant blooms of the bachelor's button make it a favorite in dried flower arrangements.

  • Look at those stunning bachelor's buttons in the garden!

Synonyms

Gomphrena globosa
vsbachelor's button
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical plant with round pink, red, or purple flowers that keep their color when dried

is the common everyday name used instead of the scientific term
globe amaranth
vsbachelor's button
  • US
9.9

A tropical plant with round bright flowers that keep their color when dried

is the whole herb with rose red or purple flowers that keep color when dried

Surface Forms

bachelor's button singular
bachelor's buttons plural

Morphology

bachelor's + button

Knowing 'button' as a small, budlike object would let a learner guess the phrase refers to a button-shaped flower or plant, but the possessive 'bachelor's' gives no clear semantic clue to the species or the full meaning (cornflower, an annual Eurasian plant). The name is a conventional folk plant name whose specific referent is not predictable from the parts, so the relation is only partially transparent.

Etymology

Bachelor's button gets its name from a simple image: the word bachelor's means a young man and the small, round flower looked like a button, so young men would give or keep the bloom as a token that kept its color when dried. That's why this name fits a long-lasting, colorful flower.