grandiflora
- adjective
- /ˌɡrændɪˈflɔːrə/
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grandiflora
- The rose variety labeled grandiflora produces exceptionally large and showy blooms in the garden.
Examples
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The catalog lists several grandiflora hybrids prized for their impressive floral displays.
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Many gardeners prefer grandiflora varieties for their beauty.
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Botanists often use the term grandiflora when describing species with noticeably bigger flowers.
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The grandiflora rose is known for its stunning blooms.
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The rose variety labeled grandiflora produces exceptionally large and showy blooms in the garden.
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Botanists often use the term grandiflora when describing species with noticeably bigger flowers.
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The catalog lists several grandiflora hybrids prized for their impressive floral displays.
Antonyms
Compounds
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A climbing evergreen plant with large shiny leaves and sweet white trumpet flowers
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A large South African shrub with bright green spines and shiny leaves grown for its fruit and looks
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A threatened plant that lives for one year from the western United States with large coiled flower spikes
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A large evergreen tree with shiny leaves and big fragrant white flowers
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A low garden plant with thick, moss-like leaves and bright flowers
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A fragrant herb with large pink flowers often used to flavor food
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A tropical tree with loose clusters of red or pink flowers often grown for its edible flowers
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A shrub from southern Australia that lives for several years and has woolly stems and red or pink flowers
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A plant that grows in clumps with leaves mostly at the base and pale, fringed flowers on long spikes
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A plant that lives for many years with yellow bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern US woods
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A low bush with short leafy stems and round yellow-orange flowers native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico
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Etymology
Grandiflora comes from the Latin parts grandis 'large' and flora 'flower', and you can see the same pieces in English words like grand and floral. So when grandiflora is used as an adjective in a plant name it simply means the plant has 'large' flowers.