(sometimes initial capital letter) a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the f
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reshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope.
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(initial capital letter) Astronomy. a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor.
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a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon.
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a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.
the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color.
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an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.
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a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.
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state of efflorescence or bloom: Peonies were in flower.
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an ornament representing a flower.
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Also called fleuron, floret.Printing. an ornamental piece of type, esp. a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.
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an ornament or adornment.
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the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England.
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the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American youth.
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the finest or choicest product or example.
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flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, esp. as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.
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