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a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.

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How to use basket flower in a sentence

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
Jena Malone’s Long, Strange Trip From Homelessness to Hollywood Stardom|Marlow Stern|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
Afghanistan, We Hardly Knew You|Jonathan Foreman|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I decorated with marigolds, which are considered the flower of the dead.
New Orleans’ Carnivalesque Day of the Dead|Jason Berry|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.
How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State|Lizzie Crocker|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke