喜樂美語
  1. 1花卉的；碎花的、印花的（衣服、窗簾上的花圖案）。香水則說花香的。

    Floral means made of flowers, or with flowers, or printed with pictures of flowers. A floral dress has a flower pattern; floral wallpaper does the same job on a wall; a floral arrangement is real flowers placed together on purpose. The word came through French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs, “flower.” Though actually, shops also call a smell floral when it is like flowers, as in floral perfume, even though you cannot see a single . It is a pretty, everyday word for clothes and design, not a science word like flora. A wild full of plants is flora; a sofa covered in rose print is floral. People also say florals for clothes with that flower pattern.

From the word’s history

From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs 'flower'.

借自法文 floral，源自拉丁文 flōs「花」。

Wiktionary

組成From French floral, from Latin flōrālis, from flōs, “flower.”

同家族的字

  • floraall the plants of a place; from the same Latin flower root
  • floristsomeone who works with flowers
  • flowerfrom Latin flōs, the same root

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

floraladj/ˈfloɹəl/

  • 1

    Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

    • floral arrangement
    • floral tribute
  • 2

    Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.

    • floral motif
    • Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.

floralnoun/ˈfloɹəl/

  • 1

    A design involving flowers

    • FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals.
  • 2

    A perfume redolent of flowers

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