flour vs flower
Definitions
verb
- cover with flour
- convert grain into flour
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
Examples
She was easy to absorb and her career has flourished.
There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
Stir in the sifted flour and cocoa powder.
Definitions
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
verb
- produce or yield flowers
Examples
She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow.
Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
It was a homey room, though a little too flowery for me, with prints of cabbage-size roses on the slipcovers and curtains.
