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Definition of Paper flower
1. Noun. Brazilian vine that tends to flower continuously.
Definition of Paper flower
1. Noun. A plant, ''Bougainvillea glabra'' and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts. ¹
2. Noun. A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower. ¹
3. Noun. A plant, ''Psilostrophe cooperi'', and its flower. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paper Flower
Literary usage of Paper flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School Garden Book by Clarence Moores Weed, Philip Emerson (1911)
"They develop very nicely in two-and-one-half-inch paper flower-pots, and sometimes
will Nasturtium Seedling in paper flowerpot. even come into blossom ..."
2. St. James's Magazine by S. C. Hall (1865)
"The process of making a paper flower is virtually fourfold,—cutting the petals
out of sheets of properly coloured paper, ..."
3. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1897)
"paper flower Pots. EB Kneer. A serviceable and yet inexpensive device, so simple
that the gardeners' children can make it, is the paper flower-pot, ..."
4. Annual Report (1891)
"THE paper flower POT. F. \V. Bird & Son, East Walpole, Mass., have sent us for
trial an assortment of paper flower pots. These are made chiefly for the ..."
5. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1877)
"I aend yon herewith directions and a pattern by which anyone Fig. 59.—paper flower
Basket. may in a few minutes make out ..."
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