wallflower
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- noun
- /ˈwɔːlˌflaʊər/
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alhelí
- Everywhere I looked, wallflowers bloomed along the rocky path, their sweet scent wafting through the garden.
Examples
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The old stone wall was adorned with bright yellow wallflowers that thrived in the cracks.
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I had some tulips as well, apple-dawn red, but my favorites were the wallflowers.
Fiction book (2001) -
And behind its branches, a meadow of golden wallflowers and iris.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the swales grew the vivid yellow blossoms of Menzies' wallflower, one of the most endangered plants on the planet.
Academic text (2010) -
In the spring, the garden was filled with beautiful wallflowers that added a lovely fragrance to the air.
Synonyms
A plant that lives for many years with fragrant yellow or orange flowers that often grows on old walls
A plant with bright yellow or orange fragrant flowers that often grows on old walls
A group of perennial plants with bright, fragrant flowers called wallflowers
A group of wallflower plants that gardeners grow for bright spring flowers
A plant that lives for two years or less and has groups of bright orange-yellow flowers at stem ends
A plant from western North America with bright orange yellow flowers
Compounds
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Etymology
Wallflower originally named a small plant that grows on old walls and rocks. It is the simple joining of wall and flower, meaning 'wall' and 'flower', so the name literally describes a 'flower' that lives on a 'wall'.