flower

flor

Parte de una planta, a menudo de colores vivos, donde pueden formarse las semillas.

En inglés sencillo: The often colorful part of a plant where seeds can form.

• This flower is yellow.
• Bees visit the flowers in our garden.
• The flower opened this morning.

Sinónimos: bloom, blossom

Expresiones frecuentes: flower petals, flower bud, flower opens

flor, planta con flores

Planta cultivada por sus flores vistosas, especialmente si es pequeña y de tallo blando.

En inglés sencillo: A plant grown for its colorful blooms, especially a small plant with a soft stem.

• We planted flowers beside the fence.
• These flowers grow well in pots.
• Which flower needs the least water?

Sinónimos: flowering plant

Expresiones frecuentes: grow a flower, wild flower, flower bed

flor, flor cortada

Flor cortada de una planta con su tallo, para regalarla o usarla como decoración.

En inglés sencillo: A bloom with its stem, cut from a plant and given as a gift or used for decoration.

• He gave me a flower.
• She put the flowers in a vase.
• Did you send flowers for her birthday?

Sinónimos: cut flower

Expresiones frecuentes: cut flower, flower arrangement, buy a flower

floración

Estado de una planta cuando sus flores están abiertas.

En inglés sencillo: The state of a plant when its colorful seed-producing parts are open.

• The trees are in flower.
• These plants come into flower in June.
• The roses were in full flower when we arrived.

Cómo se usa: be in flower (The apple trees are in flower.); come into flower (The shrubs come into flower in early spring.)

Sinónimos: bloom

Expresiones frecuentes: in flower, come into flower, full flower

flor, plenitud

Etapa en que alguien o algo alcanza su mayor fuerza, salud o éxito.

En inglés sencillo: The time when someone or something is strongest, healthiest, or most successful.

• She was in the flower of youth.
• His talent was in full flower that summer.
• The disease struck him in the flower of life.

Cómo se usa: in the flower of something (The poet died in the flower of youth.)

Sinónimos: prime, peak

Expresiones frecuentes: the flower of youth, the flower of life, in full flower

floritura, adorno retórico

Expresión atractiva añadida a un texto o discurso para embellecerlo.

En inglés sencillo: An attractive expression added to writing or speech to make it sound beautiful.

• His speech contained a graceful flower of rhetoric.
• She removed the rhetorical flowers from her draft.
• The essay hides a simple idea beneath flowers of language.

Sinónimos: rhetorical ornament

Expresiones frecuentes: flower of rhetoric, rhetorical flower

florecer

Producir una planta flores en las que más adelante pueden formarse semillas.

En inglés sencillo: If a plant does this, it produces the colorful parts that can later form seeds.

• These trees flower in spring.
• The roses flowered late this year.
• Will this plant flower indoors?

Sinónimos: bloom, blossom

Expresiones frecuentes: flower in spring, flower every year, begin to flower