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floral
What does floral mean?
floral (adjective): resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use floral in a sentence?
- It has a floral scent. (Tatoeba sentence #10242258 by LimeGreenTeknii, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce floral?
/ˈflɔɹəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does floral come from?
From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs (“flower”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “floral” mean?
resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers
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wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions
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the greatest or most complete or best possible
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not large or big; insignificant; few in number
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