FLOWER GARDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flower garden mean? 

• FLOWER GARDEN (noun)
  The noun FLOWER GARDEN has 1 sense:

1. a garden featuring flowering plants

  Familiarity information: FLOWER GARDEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWER GARDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A garden featuring flowering plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flower garden" is a kind of...):

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flower garden"):

parterre (an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern)

 Context examples 

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss Elliot to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Meg knew Sallie and was at her ease very soon, but Jo, who didn't care much for girls or girlish gossip, stood about, with her back carefully against the wall, and felt as much out of place as a colt in a flower garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)