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wild flower

noun

  1. Alsowildflower any flowering plant that grows in an uncultivated state
  2. the flower of such a plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

On several afternoons we made further trips to the deep woods after wild-flower plants, and set them in along our brook.

A tiny wild flower blossomed by his foot—he plucked it, and pressed its petals open with his finger.

The one was a hot-house plant, the other a garden flower, or even a wild flower.

Sadoc pointed to an Egyptian child sleeping a few paces off with a wild-flower grasped in its little hand.

The poppy is our best-known wild flower, planted by Mother Nature before white men ever visited these shores.

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