wat is the meaning of a flower?

Question

i dont knw

Answer 1

it is a nice thing

Answer 2

A flower is a part of the plants called angiosperms that holds the plant's reproductive organs. They are formed from buds. The flower is attached to the tip of a stem at a point called the receptacle.

There are four basic flower parts. They are, going from the outside of the flower to the inside

Sepals: A group of leafy like parts at the base of the flower altogether called the calyx.

Petals: The colorful parts of the flower arranged within the sepals - altogether called the corolla.

Stamens: The male part of the flower within the petals or corolla. They contain sacs holding pollen, the male sex cells and are called anther sacs.

Carpels: The female part of the flower at its very center altogether called the ovary and also the pistil. At the bottom of the pistil are the eggs or ovules which are the female sex cells. When these tiny ovules become fertilzed with pollen they form seeds. The ovary then develops into fruit

Answer 3

The reproductive system of a plant, whether showy, or not. Flowers can be both male and female, producing both pollen and ovule, or one or the other. Flowers are the most commonly used part in identifying a plant.

Answer 4

the flower is said to contain the cycles of life and the one who picks the flower shortens each cycle of all who touch it thereafter.

Answer 5

Why do you ask such a question. Even children would not like to ask. Anyway you may not be English knowing person. Use Google instead or dictionary.com

Answer 6

Egy virág, in Hungarian...

Answer 7

rose=love
daisy=friendship
sunflower=happiness
forget-me-not flower=forget-me-not

Answer 8

nature's beautifier

Answer 9

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Flowering plants heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores). The pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but these are together in a bisporangiate strobilus that is the typical flower.

A flower is regarded as a modified stem (Eames, 1961) with shortened internodes and bearing, at its nodes, structures that may be highly modified leaves. In essence, a flower structure forms on a modified shoot or axis with an apical meristem that does not grow continuously (growth is determinate). The stem is called a pedicel, the end of which is the torus or receptacle. The parts of a flower are arranged in whorls on the torus. The four main parts or whorls (starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and working upwards) are as follows:

Calyx – the outer whorl of sepals; typically these are green, but are petal-like in some species.
Corolla – the whorl of petals, which are usually thin, soft and colored to attract insects that help the process of pollination.
Androecium (from Greek andros oikia: man's house) – one or two whorls of stamens, each a filament topped by an anther where pollen is produced. Pollen contains the male gametes.
Gynoecium (from Greek gynaikos oikia: woman's house) – one or more pistils. The female reproductive organ is the carpel: this contains an ovary with ovules (which contain female gametes). A pistil may consist of a number of carpels merged together, in which case there is only one pistil to each flower, or of a single individual carpel (the flower is then called apocarpous). The sticky tip of the pistil, the stigma, is the receptor of pollen. The supportive stalk, the style becomes the pathway for pollen tubes to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ovules, carrying the reproductive material.

The androecium and gynoecium of a tulip.Although the floral structure described above is considered the "typical" structural plan, plant species show a wide variety of modifications from this plan. These modifications have significance in the evolution of flowering plants and are used extensively by botanists to establish relationships among plant species. For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral organs in each whorl: dicotyledons typically having 4 or 5 organs (or a multiple of 4 or 5) in each whorl and monocotyledons having three or some multiple of three. The number of carpels in a compound pistil may be only two, or otherwise not related to the above generalization for monocots and dicots.

In the majority of species individual flowers have both pistils and stamens as described above. These flowers are described by botanists as being perfect, bisexual, or hermaphrodite. However, in some species of plants the flowers are imperfect or unisexual: having only either male (stamens) or female (pistil) parts. In the latter case, if an individual plant is either male or female the species is regarded as dioecious. However, where unisexual male and female flowers appear on the same plant, the species is considered monoecious.

Some flowers with both stamens and a pistil are capable of self-fertilization, which does increase the chance of producing seeds but limits genetic variation. The extreme case of self-fertilization occurs in flowers that always self-fertilize, such as the common dandelion. Conversely, many species of plants have ways of preventing self-fertilization. Unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant may not appear at the same time, or pollen from the same plant may be incapable of fertilizing its ovules. The latter flower types, which have chemical barriers to their own pollen, are referred to as self-sterile or self-incompatible (see also: Plant sexuality).


Close-up of a lily, showing six stamens and the stigma and style of a pistil.Additional discussions on floral modifications from the basic plan are presented in the articles on each of the basic parts of the flower. In those species that have more than one flower on an axis—so-called composite flowers— the collection of flowers is termed an inflorescence; this term can also refer to the specific arrangements of flowers on a stem. In this regard, care must be exercised in considering what a ‘‘flower’’ is. In botanical terminology, a single daisy or sunflower for example, is not a flower but a flower head— an inflorescence composed of numerous tiny flowers (sometimes called florets). Each of these flowers may be anatomically as described above.

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Floral formula
A floral formula is a way to represent the structure of a flower using specific letters, numbers, and symbols. Typically, a general formula will be used to represent the flower structure of a plant family rather than a particular species. The following representations are used:

Ca = calyx (sepal whorl; e.g. Ca5 = 5 sepals)
Co = corolla (petal whorl; e.g., Co3(x) = petals some multiple of three )
Z = add if zygomorphic (e.g., CoZ6 = zygomorphic with 6 petals)
A = androecium (whorl of stamens; e.g., A∞ = many stamens)
G = gynoecium (carpel or carpels; e.g., G1 = monocarpous)


x - to represent a "variable number"
∞ - to represent "many"


A floral formula would appear something like this:

Ca5Co5A10 - ∞G1
Several other symbols are used that will have to await drawings to illustrate here (see [1]).

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Flower function

Grains of pollen on stigma of a lily.The function of a flower is to mediate the union of male and female gametes. The process is termed pollination. Many flowers are dependent upon the wind to move pollen between flowers of the same species. Others rely on animals (especially insects) to accomplish this feat. The period of time during which this process can take place (the flower is fully expanded and functional) is called anthesis.

Many flowers in nature have evolved to attract animals to pollinate the flower, the movements of the pollinating agent contributing to the opportunity for genetic recombination within a dispersed plant population. Flowers that are insect-pollinated are called entomophilous (literally "insect-loving"). Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on their various parts that attract these animals. Birds and bees are common pollinators: both having color vision, thus opting for "colorful" flowers. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar; they may be visible to us or only under ultraviolet light, which is visible to bees and some other insects. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent. Many of their scents are pleasant to our sense of smell, but not all. Some plants, such as Rafflesia, the titan arum, and the North American pawpaw (Asimina triloba), are pollinated by flies, so produce a scent imitating rotting meat.

In any case, pollinators are attracted to the plant, perhaps in search of nectar, which they eat. The arrangement of the stamens ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator. In gathering nectar from many flowers of the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen between all of the flowers it visits.


A flower.The flowers of other species are pollinated by the wind (for example, grasses); they have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy". Wind-pollinated flowers are referred to as anemophilous. Whereas the pollen of entomophilous flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to insects, though it may still be gathered in times of dearth. Honeybees and bumblebees actively gather anemophilous corn (maize) pollen, though it is of little value to them.

There is much confusion about the role of flowers in allergies. For example the showy and entomophilous goldenrod (Solidago) is frequently blamed for respiratory allergies, of which it is innocent, since its pollen cannot be airborne. Instead the allergen is usually the pollen of the contemporary bloom of anemophilous ragweed (Ambrosia), which can drift for many kilometers.

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Flower evolution
While land plants have existed for about 425 million years, the first ones reproduced by a simple adaptation of their aquatic counterparts; spores. In the sea, plants -- and some animals -- can simply scatter out little living copies of themselves to float away and grow elsewhere. This is how early plants are thought to have, like modern ferns, reproduced. But plants soon began protecting these copies to deal with drying out and other abuse which is even more likely on land than in the sea. The protection became the seed...but not, yet, flowers. Early seed-bearing plants include the ginko, conifers (like pines), and fir trees. But the first fossil proof of actual flowers appears only 130 million years ago.

Unfortunately, there is no fossil evidence of exactly how flowers evolved; the evidence has them springing in advanced form into the fossil record. This was recognized almost immediately during the development of evolution theory, the strange appearance of flowers in the fossil record being called by Charles Darwin the Abominable Mystery.

The general assumption is that the function of flowers, from the start, was to involve other animals in the reproduction process. Pollen can be scattered without bright colors and obvious shapes, which would therefore be a liability, using the plant's resources, unless they provide some other benefit. One proposed reason for the sudden, fully developed appearance of flowers is that they evolved in an isolated setting like an island, or chain of islands, where the plants bearing them were able to develop a highly specialized relationship with some specific animal (a wasp, for example), the way many island species develop today. This symbiotic relationship, with a hypothetical wasp bearing pollen from one plant to another much the way fig wasps do today, could have eventually resulted in both the plant(s) and their partners developing a high degree of specialization. Island genetics is believed to be a common source of speciation, especially when it comes to radical adaptations which seem to have required inferior transitional forms. Note that the wasp example is not incidental; bees, apparently evolved specifically for symbiotic plant relationships, are descended from wasps.

Likewise, most fruit used in plant reproduction comes from the enlargement of parts of the flower. This fruit is frequently a tool which depends upon animals wishing to eat it, and thus scattering the seeds it contains.

While many such symbiotic relationships remain too fragile to survive competition with mainland animals and spread, flowers proved to be an unusually effective means of production, spreading (whatever their actual origin) to become the dominant form of land plant life.

While there is only hard proof of such flowers existing about 130 million years ago, there is some circumstantial evidence that they did exist up to 250 million years ago. A chemical used by plants to defend their flowers, oleanane, has been detected in fossil plants that old, including gigantopterids[2], which evolved at that time and bear many of the traits of modern, flowering plants, though they are not known to be flowering plants themselves, because only their stems and prickles have been found preserved in detail; one of the earliest examples of petrification.

The similarity in leaf and stem structure can be very important, because flowers are genetically just an adaptation of normal leaf and stem components on plants, a combination of genes normally responsible for forming new shoots[3]. The most primitive flowers are thought to have had a variable number of flower parts, often separate from (but in contact with) each other. The flowers would have tended to grow in a spiral pattern, to be bisexual (in plants, this means both male and female parts on the same flower), and to be dominated by the ovary (female part). As flowers grew more advanced, some variations developed parts fused together, with a much more specific number and design, and with either specific sexes per flower or plant, or at least "ovary inferior".

Flower evolution continues to the present day; modern flowers have been so profoundly influenced by humans that many of them cannot be pollinated in nature. Many modern, domesticated flowers used to be simple weeds, which only sprouted when the ground was disturbed. Some of them tended to grow with human crops, and the prettiest did not get plucked because of their beauty, developing a dependence upon and special adaptation to human affection[4].

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Edible flowers
Flowers provide less food than other major plants parts (seeds, fruits, roots, stems and leaves) but they provide several important foods and spices. Flower vegetables include broccoli, cauliflower and artichoke. The most expensive spice, saffron, consists of dried stigmas of a crocus. Other flower spices are cloves and capers. Hops flowers are used to flavor beer. Marigold flowers are fed to chickens to give their skin a golden yellow color, which consumers find more desirable. Dandelion flowers are often made into wine. Bee Pollen, pollen collected from bees, is considered a health food by some people. Honey consists of bee-processed flower nectar and is often named for the type of flower, e.g. orange blossom honey, clover honey and tupelo honey.

Hundreds of fresh flowers are edible but few are widely marketed as food. They are often used to add color and flavor to salads. Squash flowers are dipped in breadcrumbs and fried. Edible flowers include nasturtium, chrysanthemum, carnation, cattail, honeysuckle, chicory, cornflower and sunflower. Certain edible flowers are sometimes candied such as pansy, daisy and rose.

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Flowers in gardening and horticulture
Main and related articles at: Floristry, Flower garden, Gardening, Horticulture, and List of flowers

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Flowers in the arts

Flowers created in 2006 by Veronica Ruiz de Velasco.The great variety of delicate and beautiful flowers has inspired the works of many poets, especially from the Romantic era. Famous examples include and William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and William Blake's Ah! Sun-Flower:

Ah, Sun-flower weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveler’s journey is done:

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

—William Blake, Ah! Sun-Flower
Because of their varied and colorful appearance, flowers have long been a favorite subject of visual artists as well. Some of the most celebrated paintings from well-known painters are of flowers, such as Van Gogh's sunflowers series or Monet's water lilies.

The Roman goddess of flowers, gardens, and the season of Spring is Flora. The Greek goddess of spring, flowers and nature is Chloris.

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Flowers in everyday life

A sunflower being pollinated by a bee.
Lilium hybrid "Stargazer" is extremely fragrant.In modern times, people have sought ways to cultivate, buy, wear, or just be around flowers and blooming plants, partly because of their agreeable smell. Around the world, people use flowers for a wide range of events and functions that, cumulatively, encompass one's lifetime:

For new births or Christenings
As a corsage or boutonniere to be worn at social functions or for holidays
For wedding flowers for the bridal party, and decorations for the hall
As brightening decorations within the home
As a gift of remembrance for bon voyage parties, welcome home parties, and "thinking of you" gifts
For funeral flowers and expressions of sympathy for the grieving
People therefore grow flowers around their homes, dedicate entire parts of their living space to flower gardens, pick wildflowers, or buy flowers from florists who depend on an entire network of commercial growers and shippers to support their trade.

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Flowers as symbols
Many flowers have important symbolic meanings in Western culture. The practice of assigning meanings to flowers is known as floriography. Some of the more common examples include:

Red roses are given as a symbol of love, beauty, and passion.
Poppies are a symbol of consolation in time of death. In the UK, Australia and Canada, red poppies are worn to commemorate soldiers who have died in times of war.
Irises/Lily are used in burials as a symbol referring to "resurrection/life". It is also associated with stars (sun) and its petals blooming/shining.
Daisies are a symbol of innocence.
Flowers within art are also representative of the female genitalia, as seen in the works of artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Imogen Cunningham, Veronica Ruiz de Velasco, and Judy Chicago, and in fact in oriental and western classical art.

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FLOWER MEANINGS
Acacia Friendship, Concealed love, Beauty in retirement, Chaste love
Acorn Nordic symbol of life and immortality
Agapanthus Love Letters
Allium Unity, Humility, Patience
Alstroemeria Wealth, Prosperity, Fortune
Amaryllis Pride
Ambrosia Your love is reciprocated
Anemone Forsaken
Arbutus Thee only do I love
Aster Afterthought
Astilbe I'll still be waiting
Azalea Love, Romance, First love, Take care of yourself for me, Temperance, Chinese sysmbol of womanhood, Fragile passion
Bachelor's Button Felicity, delicacy, Single blessedness
Basil Best wishes
Bells of Ireland Good luck
Begonia Beware
Bittersweet Truth
Bluebell Humility
Bouquet of withered flowers Rejected love
Bouvardia Enthusiasm
Cactus Endurance
Caladium Great joy and delight
Calla Magnificent Beauty
Camellia
General Perfection
Pink Longing for you
Red You're a flame in my heart
White You're adorable

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Candytuft Indifference
Carnation
General Fascination, Women love
Solid Color Yes
Pink I'll never forget you
Purple Capriciousness
Red My heart aches for you, Admiration
Striped Sorry I can't be with you, No, Refusal, Wish I could be with you
White Innocence, Sweet and lovely, Pure love, woman's good luck gift
Yellow Rejection, You have disappointed me

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Chrysanthemum
General Cheerfulness, You're a wonderful friend, Rest
Red I Love
White Truth
Yellow Slighted love

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Clover Good luck
Coral Bells Challenge
Coreopsis Always cheerful
Cosmos Modesty
Crocus Youthful gladness, Cheerfulness
Cyclamen Resignation, Goodbye
Daffodil You're the only one, Regard, Unrequited love
Dahlia Instability
Daisy Innocence, Loyal love, I'll never tell, Purity
Dandelion Faithfulness, Happiness
Dead leaves Sadness
Dogwood Love undiminished by adversity
Fern Fascination, Sincerity, Magic, Confidence, Shelter
Fern (Maiden Hair) Secret bond of love
Fir Time
Flax Domestic symbol
Forget-Me-Not True love, Memories
Forsythia Good nature, Innocence, Anticipation
Freesia Innocence
Galax Encouragement
Gardenia You're lovely, Secret love
Garlic Courage, Strength
Geranium Stupidity, Folly
Geranium, Ivy Bridal favor
Gladiolus Strength of character, Give me a break, Really sincere, Flower of the gladitors
Gloxinia Love at first sight
Grass Submission
Heather
Lavender Admiration, Solitude
White Protection, Wishes will come true

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Holly Foresight, Defense, Domestic happiness
Hyacinth
General Games, Sports, Rashness, Flower dedicated to Apollo
Blue Constancy
Purple Please forgive me, Sorrow
Red or Pink Play
White Loveliness, I'll pray for you
Yellow Jealousy

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Hydrangea Thank-you for understanding, Frigidity, Heartlessness
Iris Emblem of France, Wisdom and Valor, My compliments Your friendship means so much to me
Ivy Fidelity, Wedded love, Friendship, Affection
Ivy (Sprig of white tendrils) Anxious to please, Affection
Jonquil (daffodil) Sympathy, Love me, Affection returned, Desire
Kalanchoe Popularity
Larkspur Levity
Larkspur (Pink) Fickleness
Lavender Devotion
Lilac Humility
Lily
Day Lily Coquetry, Chinese emblem for mother
Eucharis Maiden charms
Orange Hatred
Tiger Wealth, Pride
White Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It's heavenly to be with you
Yellow I'm walking on air!, False and gay

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Lily of the Valley Sweetness, Tears of the Virgin Mary, Humility, You've made my life complete, Return to happiness
Magnolia Love of nature, Nobility
Marigold Cruelty, Grief, Jealousy
Marjoram Blushes, Mirth
Mint Virtue
Missletoe Magic plant of the Druids, Kiss me, Affection, To surmount difficulties, Sacred plant of India
Monkshood Chivalry, Beware, A deadly foe is near
Moss Maternal love, Charity
Myrtle Home, Love, Hebrew emblem of marriage
Narcissus Egotism, Formality, Stay as sweet as you are
Nasturtium Patriotism, Conquest, Victory in battle
Nuts Stupidity
Orange Blossom Purity, Innocence, Eternal love, Marriage, Fuitfulness
Orange (Mock) Deceit
Orleander Caution
Orchid Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful lady, Chinese symbol for many children
Orchid (Cattleya) Mature charm
Palm leaves Victory, Success
Pansy Thoughts
Parsley Festivity
Peach Blossom I am your captive
Peony Bashfulness
Petunia Resentment, Anger, Your Presence Sooths Me
Phlox Our souls are united
Pine Hope , Pity
Poppy
General Eternal sleep, Oblivion, Imagination
Red Pleasure
White Consolation (Poppy is the floral sign of consolation probably because it was created by "Ceres" while in search of her daughter, Prosperpine, to assuage her grief).
Yellow Wealth, Success

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Primrose I can't live without you
Primrose (Evening) Inconstancy
Queen Anne's Lace Haven
Quince Temptation
Ranunculus You are radiant with charm
Rose
Bridal Happy Love
Christmas Tranquilize my anxiety, Anxiety
Damask Persian Ambassador of Love
Dark Crimson Mourning
Hibiscus Delicate Beauty
Leaf You may hope
Red Love, Respect, I love you
Tea I'll remember Always
Thornless Love at First Sight
White Innocence, Secrecy, Purity, I am worthy of you, You're heavenly, Silence
White and Red Mixed Unity, Flower Emblem of England
White (Withered) Transient Impression, Fleeting Beauty, You made no impression
White (Dried) Death is preferable to loss of virtue
Pink Grace, Perfect Happiness, Thankfulness, Please believe me
Lavender Enchantment
Peach Desire

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Rosebud
General Beauty and Youth, A heart innocent of love
Red Pure and lovely
White Girlhood
Moss Confessions of Love

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Roses (Bouquet of Mature Blooms) Gratitude
Roses (Single Full Bloom) I love you, I still love you
Roses (Garland or Crown of) Beware of Virtue, Reward of Merit, (crown) Symbol of Superior Merit
Roses (Musk Cluster) Charming

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Rosemary Rememberance
Sage Domestic virtue
Smilax Loveliness
Snapdragon Deception, Gracious Lady
Spider Flower Elope with Me
Spirea Victory, Conceit
Star of Bethlehem Purity
Statice Sympathy, remembrance
Stephanotis Happiness in marriage, Desire to travel
Stock Lasting beauty, Bonds of affection, Promptness, You'll always be beautiful to me
Sunflower Adoration
Sweet Basil Good wishes
Sweet Pea Delicate pleasures, Good-bye, Departure, Blissful pleasure, Thank you for a lovely time
Thyme Activity
Tulip
General Perfect lover, Fame, Flower Emblem of Holland
Red Believe me, Declaration of Love
Variegated Beautiful eyes
Yellow Hopeless love, There is sunshine in your smile

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Violet
Blue Watchfulness, Faithfulness, I'll always be true
White Let's take a chance

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Viscaria Will you dance with me?
Water lily Purity of heart
Weeping Willow Mourning
Wheat Friendliness
Yarrow Healing
Zinnia
General Thoughts of absent friends
Magenta Lasting affection
Mixed Thinking (or in Memory) of an absent friend
Scarlet Constancy
White Goodness
Yellow Daily Rememberance