compound flower

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noun

the flower head of a composite plant.

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Origin of compound flower

First recorded in 1770–80

Words nearby compound flower

compound dislocation, compound engine, compound eye, compound fault, compound flap, compound flower, compound fraction, compound fracture, compound gland, compound heterozygote, compound hyperopic astigmatism

How to use compound 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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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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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.
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There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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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
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for compound flower

compound flower

noun

a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy

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