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fleur

Partie d’une plante, souvent colorée, où peuvent se former les graines.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : bloom, blossom

Expressions courantes : flower petals, flower bud, flower opens

fleur, plante à fleurs

Plante cultivée pour ses fleurs colorées, surtout une petite plante à tige tendre.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : flowering plant

Expressions courantes : grow a flower, wild flower, flower bed

fleur, fleur coupée

Fleur coupée avec sa tige pour être offerte ou servir de décoration.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : cut flower

Expressions courantes : cut flower, flower arrangement, buy a flower

floraison

État d’une plante dont les fleurs sont ouvertes.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : be in flower (The apple trees are in flower.); come into flower (The shrubs come into flower in early spring.)

Synonymes : bloom

Expressions courantes : in flower, come into flower, full flower

fleur, apogée

Période où une personne ou une chose atteint sa plus grande force, sa meilleure santé ou son plus grand succès.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : in the flower of something (The poet died in the flower of youth.)

Synonymes : prime, peak

Expressions courantes : the flower of youth, the flower of life, in full flower

fleur de rhétorique

Belle expression ajoutée à un texte ou à un discours pour le rendre plus élégant.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : rhetorical ornament

Expressions courantes : flower of rhetoric, rhetorical flower

fleurir

Pour une plante, donner des fleurs où pourront ensuite se former des graines.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : bloom, blossom

Expressions courantes : flower in spring, flower every year, begin to flower