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white-flowered

white-flowered

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A plant that has white flowers like roses or jasmine
  • adjective
translation icon : de flores blancas
  • Common plants include sweet flag, water plantain, purple avens, blue iris, marsh marigold, sundrops, water smartweed, and several kinds of white-flowered aster.
  • white-flowered vine
  • white-flowered plant
  • white-flowered solanum

Examples

  • Many gardeners prefer the white-flowered variety of wildflowers for their elegant appearance.

  • Blue-and-white-flowered asters line the road throughout autumn and until the end of the growing season.

    Academic text (1998)
  • My hand automatically smoothed the folds of my newly purchased red-and-white-flowered print dress.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • For example, if you had low magenta and low yellow, what you would end up with is a white flower with these very restricted spots of magenta and yellow.

  • He next passed by the stand of walnut trees and wild oleander, which was white-flowered in the summer.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • It's a very feminine, blue-and-white flowered pattern on the spread, headboard, and draperies.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The garden was beautiful in spring, especially with the white-flowered plants blooming everywhere.

  • In the park, the white-flowered magnolia trees provided a stunning contrast to the vibrant green grass.

Antonyms

A plant that has red flowers

Surface Forms

white-flowered positive

Morphology

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

The adjective is formed by adding -ed to the compound 'white' + 'flower' meaning 'having white flowers', a productive and easily inferable pattern.

Etymology

White-flowered combines white 'the colour' and flowered from flower 'bloom'. So, white-flowered simply means 'having white flowers', which you can remember like red-haired or blue-eyed, where a colour plus a thing describes someone or something.