FLOWER HEAD

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 I. (noun) 

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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