FLOWER HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flower head mean? 

• FLOWER HEAD (noun)
  The noun FLOWER HEAD has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FLOWER HEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWER HEAD (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

Like all Asteraceae, the flowers are a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head; cone-shaped because the petals of the outer ray florets, once the flower head opens, tend to point downward (are decumbent), thus forming a cone.

(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)