complete flower
Scientific-
A flower having all four floral parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels.
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Compare incomplete flower See also perfect flower
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In Don Giovanni Mozart gave us his richest and most complete flower of operatic work.
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Onions, who faces a two-month lay-off with back trouble, and Sidebottom, whose injury concerns are more persistent and varied, will complete Flower's shortlist of six if they can recover fitness.
From The Guardian
The flowers of the Cherry or Apple will show the four kinds of organs that belong to a complete flower.
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The fourth glume is a little longer than the third, lanceolate, acuminate, with infolded margins 5- or 6-nerved, paleate and enclosing a complete flower.
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The complete flower is the lowest and the tendency for imperfection is in the upper flowers.
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