wildflower
or wild flow·er
the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
the plant itself.
Origin of wildflower
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How to use wildflower in a sentence
On several afternoons we made further trips to the deep woods after wild-flower plants, and set them in along our brook.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonA tiny wild flower blossomed by his foot—he plucked it, and pressed its petals open with his finger.
Alone | Marion HarlandThe one was a hot-house plant, the other a garden flower, or even a wild flower.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksSadoc pointed to an Egyptian child sleeping a few paces off with a wild-flower grasped in its little hand.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-MelvilleThe poppy is our best-known wild flower, planted by Mother Nature before white men ever visited these shores.
Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
British Dictionary definitions for wild flower
Also: wildflower any flowering plant that grows in an uncultivated state
the flower of such a plant
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