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floramour

floramour noun: the plant love-lies-bleeding.

Noun

floramour (plural floramours)

  1. (obsolete) The plant love-lies-bleeding.
    • The great Floramour hath a thick and call creſted ſtalk, with many reddiſh, large green leaves, the ſtalk divided into many branches, bearing long spikes of round hairy tufts1665, John Rea, De Florum Cultura

Forms of floramour

pluralfloramours

Origin of floramour

From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + amor (“love”).

Questions about floramour

What does floramour mean?
Floramour means the plant love-lies-bleeding.
What part of speech is floramour?
Floramour is a noun.
What is the plural of floramour?
The plural of floramour is floramours.

Words near floramour in the dictionary

  1. floralness
  2. florals
  3. floralturbation
  4. floramor
  5. floramors
  6. floramour
  7. floramours
  8. floran
  9. Florance
  10. Florange
  11. Florania

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