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FLOWER HEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flower head" is a kind of...):
inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)
Meronyms (parts of "flower head"):
ray floret; ray flower (small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower)
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