mayflower
noun
any of various plants that blossom in May, such as the hepatica or anemone in the United States, and the hawthorn or cowslip in England.
mayflowers
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pluralof mayflower.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The two met at an audition for a community theater production in Southern California, and Nixon proposed two years later, delivering her engagement ring in a basket filled with mayflowers.
From Time ● Mar. 13, 2012
But the heights shall reward you, if not with mayflowers with greater and more lasting joys.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
We were very small, and it must have been in the spring, for we picked mayflowers and found strawberries in the woods.'
From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A light rain had been falling all day—a little, delicate, beautiful spring rain, that somehow seemed to hint and whisper of mayflowers and wakening violets.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The spring seeking motorist finds his first mayflowers there as the grade leads up Manomet heights and may expect them by the roadside anywhere, after that.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
