flower of life

Noun

flower of life (countable and uncountable, plural flowers of life)

1. A hexagonal pattern of overlapping circles, associated with the New Age movement and sacred geometry.
   • This image of the Flower of Life (Fig. 2-20) is not only found in Egypt, but all over the world.2000, Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, volume 1, Light Technology Publishing, →ISBN, page 40
2. A flower on the tree of life.
   • The lotus was in some Eastern countries imagined blossoming upon the Tree of Life, as the Flower of Life, and is thus represented in Assyrian bas-reliefs. Because the Rose, the flower sacred to the Virgin Mary, and the flower that Apuleius’ adventurer ate, when he was changed out of the ass’s shape...1908, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, volume 1, Notes
3. (figuratively, uncountable) Youth.