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.
And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed.
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.
