perfect flower
noun
a flower having stamens and pistils in the same individual bloom.
perfect flowers
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pluralof perfect flower.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This surprising and somewhat controversial win at a show known for its white tents and rows of perfect flowers gives me hope not only for the future of gardening, but for the planet itself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
Some botanists refer to plants with perfect flowers simply as hermaphroditic.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Unisexual, or Separated, or Diclinous Flowers, imperfect flowers, as they have been called in contradistinction to perfect flowers; but that term is too ambiguous.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Herbs, with perfect flowers and alternate or opposite or whorled entire leaves.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The sweet violet also produces abundance of seed from its cleistogamic flowers, and few from its perfect flowers; but in Liguria it produces only perfect flowers which seed abundantly.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
