flower head
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈflaʊər hɛd/
- Specialized
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capítulo
- During the summer, the sunflower's large flower heads attract many pollinators with their bright colors.
- yellow flower heads
- rosy flower heads
- pink flower heads
Examples
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The boy is working at a basketful of flower heads, pulling petals and separating the hearts, putting them in a large jar of colored liquid.
Fiction book (1993) -
The garden was vibrant with clover's flower heads, making it look like a single beautiful bloom.
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And so each one of these flower heads here have hundreds of seeds on them.
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As many as 500 individual flowers are crowded into each flower head.
Academic text (1995) -
And that kind of flower head needs to be pollinated.
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When the plant is several years old, cream-colored flower heads develop at the top in a two- to three-foot-long spray.
Academic text (1995) -
They're kind of like the spring allium but they have a smaller flower head and they just bloom so many more blooms.
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Spines radiating out from beneath the plant's flower head discourage grazing.
Academic text (2004) -
When the boat had passed, the flower heads bobbed up again, gently swaying from side to side, almost, she thought, as if to bid the passengers farewell.
Fiction book (1992) -
The playwright takes a shallow bowl, pours water from the vase into it, and floats the flower heads in it.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
1
8.8
The whole flower head with its flowers and small stems on a plant
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2.7
A group of flowers that grow close together on a plant
A dense head of many small flowers at the top of a plant like a daisy
How Compact
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'flower' (the plant's reproductive part) + 'head' (the rounded/top part), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer a rounded/top part composed of flowers. This literal, descriptive compounding is common cross-linguistically and requires little specialized botanical knowledge, making it transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Flower head comes from a simple picture: many tiny flowers are packed close together to form a round head that looks like one big flower. So, it means 'a group of many small flowers that looks like a single flower'.