flowerless

Examples

• All

• The following stage will consist, without a word being said, of making flowerless bouquets bloom in the open sky with explosions of lethal fireworks.

  Academic text (1992)

• Simple green flowerless plants line the water.

  Fiction book (2002)

• "My flowers had just about given up in despair, "so with the exception of a few potted plants from the florist, "we're flowerless for the first spring in years."

  Secretary (2002)

• Many ferns are flowerless plants that thrive in dark, moist areas.

• The flowerless plants in the garden were lush and green, but they did not produce any blossoms.

• While some plants bloom beautifully, others remain flowerless throughout the year, like certain species of moss.

Synonyms

N

nonflowering

vsflowerless

• Specialized

5.8

A plant that does not make flowers or seeds

has the same meaning but uses a different word form

B

blossomless

vsflowerless

4.9

Not having flowers and showing no sign of new growth or promise

is specific to plants lacking flowers or seeds

Antonyms

F

flowering

2.5

Having open blossoms on the plant

How Flowered

in bloom

13 2.3

flowerless

4.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology