Meaning of paper flower | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
2. A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.
3. A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, flower.

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Examples

“prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ...”

“Families within the order Centrospermae, including taxa like prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) and paper flower (Bougainvillea sp.), display transient red coloration”

“Introduction / Common Name: Bougainvillea, Paper Flower / Scientific Name: Bougainvillea glabra / Family: Nyctaginaceae”

“There is my Quaker Aunt, A Paper-Flower, — with a formal border / No breeze could e'er disorder, — Pouting at that old beau—the Winter Cherry, / A pucker'd berry; / And Box, like a tough-liv'd annuitant”

“Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate.”

“He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel.”

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