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[flau-er] / ˈflaʊ ər /




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Her instantly recognizable flower paintings, desert landscapes, bleached bones and abstractions have won her dozens of museum retrospectives or themed solo exhibitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He notes that the system is good at picking out very tiny flower buds, which are hard to see at a glance with the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Chandeliers, poetry and flower arches decorate a government marriage registry, and officials hope baby carriages will follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

To make the cabinets her own, she took inspiration from Danish flower paintings and began hand-painting pink flowers against a white background on the fronts, allowing them to be bordered by the original brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He’d stand out like a mushroom in a flower patch.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Shannon made a comment about how the songs were grouped together thematically — plants and flowers and I forget the third element, which struck me as a thoroughly R.E.M. way of doing things.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

At a portrait of Yevgeni Postel, a 25-year-old student, his mother laid a bouquet of flowers and broke down sobbing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

She wrote about flowers and birds, about dying and religious doubt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Stroll through the woods and encounter prehistoric scenes, luminous flowers, lantern art and a host of mythical creatures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Our ‘ōhi‘a lehua, with bright red flowers exploding like fireworks amid the dusty green leaves.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The parade theme was “Tales of the Seven Seas,” and in the downpour, 30 flowered nymphs were washed off one float.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

A veil rested on their heads, held by a satin flowered headband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Each generation of banana plants had to grow for at least 12 months before researchers could test them for disease resistance and continue breeding once they flowered.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026

Still, at the time of the January fires, the semi-deciduous trees had not yet flowered, which likely minimized the damage they suffered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

Only when they ordered him to put his back to the wall did Arcadio see Rebeca, with wet hair and a pink flowered dress, opening wide the door.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

That connection appears to restrict how freely the plants can adapt, with selection for larger flowers taking precedence over the potential benefit of earlier flowering.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

In habitats with only a small variety of flowering plants, these bees may have difficulty obtaining the appropriate balance of essential amino acids for both themselves and their developing young.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It consisted of a series of four brick terraces, rising above the Euphrates River, with lush flowering shrubs and trees spilling over the city.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell




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