perfect flower
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A flower having both stamens and carpels. Most angiosperms have perfect flowers.
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Compare imperfect flower See also complete flower
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Some early models had a flower vase, typically mounted on the dashboard as the perfect flower child accessory.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
“His roots go deeper than anybody could ever imagine to produce the perfect flower that was Ramón. He built more for the people of New York than Robert Moses ever did.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2016
Remember David Gergen, a three-time White House aide turned journalist turned pundit — “the perfect flower of the Insider species,” as New York Times journalist Michael Kelly called him in a 1993 profile?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2016
But for whatever reason, the perfect flower of this peculiar moment grows from the earthy core of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. He may not be the most popular politician in America.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2013
Rose-leaves pulled from the perfect flower and laid in your box of note-paper when they are fresh will dry there, and insure your sending to your friends notes which will associate you with fragrance.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various
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