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別の表記

• paper-flower, paperflower (both for the plant senses only)

名詞

paper flower (複数形 paper flowers)

1. A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
   • 2000, Ika Salehi Mohammad; M Taghizadeh, “Herbaceous Host Range of Ume Witches' Broom Phytoplasma in Iran”, in Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology:

     prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ...

   • 2002, WJ Steyn; SJE Wand, DM Holcroft, G Jacobs, “Anthocyanins in vegetative tissues: a proposed unified function in photoprotection”, in New Phytologist:

     Families within the order Centrospermae, including taxa like prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) and paper flower (Bougainvillea sp.), display transient red coloration

   • 2002, R Schoellhorn; E Alvarez, Warm climate production guidelines for bougainvillea:

     Introduction / Common Name: Bougainvillea, Paper Flower / Scientific Name: Bougainvillea glabra / Family: Nyctaginaceae

2. A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.
   • 1826, Thomas Hood, “The Winter Nosegay”, in Whims and oddities: in prose and verse, with forty original designs, page 67:

     There is my Quaker Aunt, A Paper-Flower, — with a formal border / No breeze could e'er disorder, — Pouting at that old beau—the Winter Cherry, / A pucker'd berry; / And Box, like a tough-liv'd annuitant

3. A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.
   • 1990, TMC Robert; CP Szpak, RJ Deslippe, “Experimental assessment of factors affecting the distribution of adult female tree lizards”, in Oikos:

     Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper,‎ flower.

   He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel.