A Flower

1. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
2. (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
3. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
4. (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
5. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
6. The best examples or representatives of a group.
7. The best state of things; the prime.
8. (obsolete) Flour.
9. (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
10. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
11. (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
12. (in the plural) Menstrual discharges.

In its most common sense as "a colorful conspicuous structure", the word flower includes many structures which are not anatomically flowers in the botanical sense. Sunflowers and daisies, for example, are structurally clusters of many small flowers that together appear to be a single flower (a capitulum, a form of pseudanthium), but these are considered to be flowers in the general sense. Likewise, the botanical definition of flower includes many structures that would not be considered a flower by the average person, such as the catkins of a willow tree or the downy flowers found atop a cattail stalk.

(inflorescence that resembles a flower): head, pseudanthium

(best examples): cream

(best state of things): prime