NOUN
- 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
How To Use flower head In A Sentence
- The body is moulded with two series of gadroons on either side of a horizontal rib; the foot is moulded with small gadroons radiating from a central flower head with the mark in its centre.
- If you usually pinch back the dead flower heads, new ones will grow.
- The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown!
- European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium.
- It is a tall plant up to 3ft high and the flower head is just as prickly as a thistle.
- Pruning also removes the spent flower heads, which are among the ugliest and untidiest of the plant world.
- The cabinet on offer contains a moulded swan-neck pediment carved with flower heads, between which is a rather impressive carved eagle crest.
- Keep an eye out for smaller, single blooms, composite flower heads or plants with a branching structure. Times, Sunday Times
- The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
- The fragrant flower heads can be trimmed off and saved, but cut off the flower stalk plus two or three pairs of leaves. The Sun
