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flower head
noun
- an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
flower head
noun
- an inflorescence in which stalkless florets are crowded together at the tip of the stem
flower head
- A short, dense, indeterminate inflorescence of sessile flowers, as of composite plants or clover.
- See more at composite family
- A very dense grouping of flower buds, as in broccoli and cauliflower.
Word History and Origins
Origin of flower head1
Example Sentences
Usually the dried flower heads are used in teas.
To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a thousand nodding pink flower heads — you would not imagine that anything could ever stand in the way of the genus Asclepias.
Hanrahan and Opal took brush to box and painted its exterior brightly depicting a garden, upon which Strom affixed discarded spigots as flower heads, an inspired moment of delight.
A still life of moody flower heads gets a soulful, jazz-tinged playlist.
Sure, the shrub’s summer effusion of hundreds of florets clustered into each of the many giant flower heads had been arresting, a crowd-pleasing moment.
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