[
US
/ˈmeɪˌfɫaʊɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈeɪflaʊɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈeɪflaʊɐ/ ]
NOUN
- low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers
How To Use mayflower In A Sentence
- In the damp fields surrounding the streams I found cowslip, self heal and mayflower.
- A few days later on a deserted Sunday morning I rode from the Mayflower three miles down to the Jacob Javits Center on the Hudson, then scootered back uptown that afternoon.
- In this latter type, hairy goldenrod, early goldenrod, dewberry, alder buckthorn, blackberry, Canada mayflower, and poison ivy accounted for 60% of the herb stratum importance.
- A commission of five persons, to be known as the Provincetown Tercentenary Commission, shall be ap - pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for the purpose of establishing at Provincetown and in the neighboring towns permanent memorials to com - memorate the three hundredth anni\ersary of the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower and the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- Since then, Before the Mayflower has been published in seven editions that have been revised and updated.
- David came on to the Mayflower stage to tumultuous applause from a packed, mainly female middle-aged audience.
- Afrocentricity is a struggle against extreme misorientation, where many of us believe that we share the same history as whites; indeed, that we came across on the Mayflower. Putting Africa At The Center
- “Plants and trees without the proper pre-Mayflower lineage are called ‘invasive exotics’ and are wrenched from the soil to die,” Yee wrote in a local newspaper editorial. San Francisco in Hole, Continues Digging
- Yet another old name for the mayflower was bog flower and this is a very accurate description but mayflower is still the most accurate and I will therefore stick to this name.
- The name mayflower was familiar in England, as the application of it to the historic vessel shows, but it was applied by the English, and still is, to the hawthorn. Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
