flower

花

植物の、種ができる部分。鮮やかな色をしていることが多い。

やさしい英語で： The often colorful part of a plant where seeds can form.

• This flower is yellow.
• Bees visit the flowers in our garden.
• The flower opened this morning.

類義語： bloom, blossom

よく使う表現： flower petals, flower bud, flower opens

草花、花

色鮮やかな花を楽しむために育てる植物。特に茎が柔らかい小さな植物。

やさしい英語で： A plant grown for its colorful blooms, especially a small plant with a soft stem.

• We planted flowers beside the fence.
• These flowers grow well in pots.
• Which flower needs the least water?

類義語： flowering plant

よく使う表現： grow a flower, wild flower, flower bed

切り花、花

贈り物や飾りにするため、茎とともに植物から切り取った花。

やさしい英語で： A bloom with its stem, cut from a plant and given as a gift or used for decoration.

• He gave me a flower.
• She put the flowers in a vase.
• Did you send flowers for her birthday?

類義語： cut flower

よく使う表現： cut flower, flower arrangement, buy a flower

開花

植物の花が開いている状態。

やさしい英語で： The state of a plant when its colorful seed-producing parts are open.

• The trees are in flower.
• These plants come into flower in June.
• The roses were in full flower when we arrived.

使い方： be in flower (The apple trees are in flower.); come into flower (The shrubs come into flower in early spring.)

類義語： bloom

よく使う表現： in flower, come into flower, full flower

盛り、全盛期

人や物が最も力強く、健やかで、成功している時期。

やさしい英語で： The time when someone or something is strongest, healthiest, or most successful.

• She was in the flower of youth.
• His talent was in full flower that summer.
• The disease struck him in the flower of life.

使い方： in the flower of something (The poet died in the flower of youth.)

類義語： prime, peak

よく使う表現： the flower of youth, the flower of life, in full flower

修辞、美辞

文章や話を美しくするために加える、華やかな表現。

やさしい英語で： An attractive expression added to writing or speech to make it sound beautiful.

• His speech contained a graceful flower of rhetoric.
• She removed the rhetorical flowers from her draft.
• The essay hides a simple idea beneath flowers of language.

類義語： rhetorical ornament

よく使う表現： flower of rhetoric, rhetorical flower

花が咲く、開花する

植物が、後に種のできる花をつける。

やさしい英語で： If a plant does this, it produces the colorful parts that can later form seeds.

• These trees flower in spring.
• The roses flowered late this year.
• Will this plant flower indoors?

類義語： bloom, blossom

よく使う表現： flower in spring, flower every year, begin to flower