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flower head

noun

, Botany.
  1. an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.


flower head

noun

  1. an inflorescence in which stalkless florets are crowded together at the tip of the stem
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

flower head

  1. A short, dense, indeterminate inflorescence of sessile flowers, as of composite plants or clover.
  2. See more at composite family
  3. A very dense grouping of flower buds, as in broccoli and cauliflower.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flower head1

First recorded in 1835–45
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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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