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Definition: Floral |
FloralAdjective1. Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers; "an unusual floral design". 2. Relating to or associated with flowers; "floral organs". 3. Of or relating to the plant life in a particular region; "characteristic alpine floral elements". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Floral \Flo"ral\, adjective. [Latin expression Floralis belonging to Flora: compare to the French expression floral. See Flora.]. (references) |
Synonym: FloralSynonym: flowered (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetable | Adjective: vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Floral Japan (1937) The Sleuths at the Floral Parade (1913) Floral Parade (1903) | |
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 | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The presence of buttonwood mangrove contributes to the floral diversity in the upland area of the estuary. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | A red rose, symbol of love—and tasty treat for spider mites. This issue of the magazine looks at several ARS efforts to keep valuable floral and nursery crops like roses and woody ornamentals safe from the many pests that plague them. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |
 | Tropical flowers like these orchids and anthuriums bring premium prices at nurseries and floral shops around the world. But these beauties are being attacked by insects. ARS scientists are looking for environmentally friendly ways to protect the showy plants. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | View into the courtyard of Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam "Big Three" meetings were held. Photographed during the conference from inside the palace entranceway. The large red floral star in the courtyard had been planted by the Soviets. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Courtyard of Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam meetings were held. The large red floral star had been planted by the Soviets. Photographed during the conference. Credit: NAVY. |  | Detroit, Mich., Bi-Centenary Celebration, Floral Parade, carriage of E. Bonner. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Floral clock and tower, Water Works Park, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Horowitz, residence at 8206 256th St., Floral Park, Long Island. Living room from entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Floral festival. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead holding floral bouquet with foliage backdrop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Floral Photos from Scotland 4" by Chris Baugh Commentary: "Taken across Scotland in such locations as the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh and castle gardens." | "Floral feast!" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "On a flower-snackbar." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Business | Handcrafted embroidery with geometric and floral patterns is also very popular. (references) | |
Pearl and frosted finishes; white over color as a highlight; origami folds pressed into garments; color blocking; painted fabric resembling the orient; huge Hawaiian floral and graphic prints; geometric prints such as polka dots and block prints; sheen and gloss; tie died wraps and skirts; tone on tone print to create dimension; modular dressing; fluid floral and watery leaf prints. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Floral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.39% of the time. "Floral" is used about 237 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 84.39% | 200 | 21,580 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.55% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.06% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 237 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | U.S.A. Floral Products, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Floral, AR |
Expressions using "floral": floral amblem ♦ floral biology ♦ Floral City ♦ floral decoration ♦ floral design ♦ floral emblem ♦ floral envelope ♦ floral essence ♦ floral leaf ♦ floral motifs ♦ Floral Park ♦ floral receptacle ♦ floral splendor ♦ floral splendour ♦ floral tribute ♦ floral wreath ♦ South Floral Park. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "floral": floral-cushioned, floral-design, floral-inspired, floral-patterned, floral-print. | |
Ending with "floral": extra-floral, ultra-floral. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
floral | 1,727 | floral delivery | 74 |
floral print | 1,596 | floral shop | 71 |
floral art | 1,456 | floral wholesale | 67 |
floral arrangement | 1,138 | floral sculpture | 63 |
floral supply | 769 | wedding floral design | 59 |
floral design | 518 | dried floral arrangement | 58 |
floral centerpiece | 367 | clipart floral | 52 |
floral park new york | 250 | floral designer | 52 |
floral wreath | 166 | floral cooler | 50 |
wedding floral arrangement | 160 | floral picture | 47 |
floral bouquet | 150 | floral arranging | 47 |
floral wedding | 138 | floral container | 45 |
floral painting | 133 | floral park | 42 |
silk floral arrangement | 131 | floral fabric | 40 |
floral tattoo | 119 | floral dress | 40 |
wholesale floral supply | 101 | floral arrangments | 37 |
silk floral | 86 | floral city fl | 36 |
wedding floral centerpiece | 85 | floral swags | 36 |
floral background | 81 | floral hong kong shop | 35 |
floral design school | 75 | floral graphic | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "floral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me lule (floriated, flowery), luleje, i lules. (various references) | |
Arabic | خاص بالازهار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цветен (chromatic, colored, coloured, non-ferrous), отнасящ се до флората. (various references) | |
Chinese | 植物群 (Flora, Florally). (various references) | |
Czech | kvìtinový (flowery). (various references) | |
Danish | frugtbund (floral bud, receptacle, torus), tilbageholdelse af luftbaarne radionuklider paa de overjordiske plantedele og i saerdeleshed paa frugterne under disses dannelse : floral kontamination (and particularly on the developing fruit : contamination through floral absorption, retention of airborne radionuclides on the above-ground parts ( or aerial parts ) of the plant), røskenvignet (small floral ornament), blomsterstilk (floral stalk, flower stalk, peduncule, stalk, stem, stem-stalk), blomsterornament (small floral ornament), blomsterleje (floral bud, receptacle), blomsterkurv (floral basket), blomsterkrans (floral wreath), blomsterknop (floral bud, flower bud, flower-bud), blomsterhonning (floral honey, flower honey), blomsterbund (floral bud, receptacle), blomsteragtig lugt og smag (floral flavour). (various references) | |
Dutch | retentie van radionucliden uit de lucht in de bovengrondse plantendelen, in het bijzonder in de zich ontwikkelende vrucht : bloeiwijze-besmetting (and particularly on the developing fruit : contamination through floral absorption, retention of airborne radionuclides on the above-ground parts ( or aerial parts ) of the plant), nectarhoning (floral honey, flower honey), nectarhonig (floral honey, flower honey), bloemstempel (small floral ornament), bloemknop (floral bud, flower bud, flower-bud), bloemige geur en smaak (floral flavour), bloemenmand (floral basket), bloemenkrans (crown, garland, wreath), bloembodem (floral bud, receptacle, torus), bloeistengel (floral stalk). (various references) | |
Finnish | nuppu (bud), kukkapohjus (floral bud, receptacle, torus), kukkanuppu (floral bud, flower bud, flower-bud), kukkaishunaja (floral honey, flower honey), kukkainen flavori (floral flavour). (various references) | |
French | floral. (various references) | |
German | blumen-, Blumen (flowers). (various references) | |
Greek | άνθινοσ, λουλουδένιος (flowery), λουλουδάτος, ανθικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פרחי (flowery, ornate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágos (floriated, florid, flowered, flowery, ornate, phanerogamous), virág-. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bunga-bungaan (artificial flowers, floral decoration, flowers), bunga (azalea, blossom, floral design, flower, interest, the best part). (various references) | |
Italian | floreale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 花茣蓙 (mat with a floral or bulrush pattern), 花被 (floral envelope, perianth), 花電車 (floral streetcar), 花葉 (floral leaf), 花筵 (mat with a floral or bulrush pattern), 花札 (floral playing cards), 花模様 (floral pattern), 花形 (floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star actor), 花式図 (floral diagram). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かしきず (floral diagram), かひ (advisability, ayes and noes, floral envelope, fruit peeling, perianth, pro and con, propriety, right and wrong, servant girl, tanka inscription), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), はながた (floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star actor), はなふだ (floral playing cards), はなでんしゃ (floral streetcar), はなござ (mat with a floral or bulrush pattern), はなむしろ (mat with a floral or bulrush pattern), はなもよう (floral pattern). (various references) | |
Korean | 꽃 (Bloom, Flower, Flowers). (various references) | |
Manx | blaaoil (florid, flowery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oralflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | floral. (various references) | |
Romanian | floral, în formã de floare. (various references) | |
Russian | цветочный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cvetni (flowery). (various references) | |
Spanish | floral (flowery). (various references) | |
Swedish | blomster-, blommig (flowered, flowery). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ประกอบด้วยดอกไม้, ที่มีลวดลายดอกไม้. (various references) | |
Turkish | çiçeklere ait, çiçek (blossom, flower, smallpox). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рослинний (vegetable, vegetal, vegetative), квітковий (angiospermous, flowery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gemma florifera, Receptaculum, receptaculum commune, torus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floral": florally, florals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "floral": microfloral. (additional references) | |
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"Floral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fiora, Fiorela, floar, flo-ral, Floreal, Florek, Floriale, florio, floriv, flova, Floya, flra, flurial, foral, forall, forel, foril, lloral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floral" (pronounced flô"rul) |
| 5 | -l ô" r u l | laurel, Loral. |
| 4 | -ô" r u l | amoral, aural, auroral, Balmoral, boral, choral, coral, goral, immoral, Sorel, Sorrel, moral, oral, quarrel. |
| 3 | -r u l | ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, austral, barrel, Beryl, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, feral, gambrel, imperil, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, integral, intramural, minstrel, mistral, mitral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, orchestral, peril, plural, rural, scoundrel, several, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: flora, loral. | |
-2 letters: fall, farl, faro, foal, fora, loaf, olla, oral, rolf, roll. | |
-3 letters: all, arf, far, for, fro, lar, oaf, oar, ora. | |
-4 letters: al, ar, fa, la, lo, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: florals. | |
+2 letters: falderol, fellator, florally, forkball, formally, rockfall. | |
+3 letters: allograft, falderols, fellators, flavorful, forestall, forkballs, frontally, rockfalls, shortfall. | |
+4 letters: allografts, calciferol, cloverleaf, flavorless, florilegia, follicular, footballer, forestalls, informally, shortfalls, softballer, wallflower. | |
+5 letters: allografted, calciferols, cauliflower, cloverleafs, flavorfully, flocculator, floorwalker, foolhardily, footballers, forestalled, forestaller, lamelliform, microfloral, patelliform, severalfold, softballers, wallflowers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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