Meaning of FLOWERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'flawuree
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- [adj] abounding in or covered with flowers; "flowering meadows"; "a flowery field"; "a bloomy sunlit slope"
- [adj] marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
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| | Synonyms: | | bloomy, blossomy, flowering, ornate, rhetorical |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flow"er*y\, a.
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
flowery style. --Milton.
{The flowery kingdom}, China.
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