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FLOWER HEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flower head mean?
• FLOWER HEAD (noun)
The noun FLOWER HEAD has 1 sense:
1. a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae
Familiarity information: FLOWER HEAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flower head" is a kind of...):
inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)
Meronyms (parts of "flower head"):
ray floret; ray flower (small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower)
Context examples
Like all Asteraceae, the flowers are a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head; cone-shaped because the petals of the outer ray florets, once the flower head opens, tend to point downward (are decumbent), thus forming a cone.
(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)
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