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red-flowered

red-flowered

1.3
A plant that has red flowers
  • adjective
translation icon : florecido en rojo

Examples

  • And my garden was a beauty: fierce and red-flowered, the roses I grew becoming my trademark, my nickname: Rosie.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • She wore a fresh dose of perfume and a full-skirted, red-flowered dress.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The garden was vibrant with many red-flowered plants blooming in the spring.

  • She admired the red-flowered tulips that brightened up the landscape.

  • In the park, I spotted several red-flowered blossoms attracting butterflies.

Antonyms

A plant that has white flowers like roses or jasmine

How Red

red-flowered
1.3
pink
646 1.0

Surface Forms

red-flowered positive

Morphology

red-flowered = flowered (transparent) = red + flower + red + ed

The adjective is clearly built by adding the color modifier 'red' to 'flowered' (having flowers), a straightforward and predictable formation.

Etymology

The word red-flowered is made of red and flowered, where flowered comes from flower + -ed meaning 'having'. So red-flowered means 'having red flowers', like blue-eyed means 'having blue eyes'.