英语词汇“wallflower”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	wallflower
释义	Trends of wallflower View usage for: wallflower (wɔːlflaʊəʳ) Word forms: plural wallflowers 1. countable noun A wallflower is a plant that is grown in gardens and has sweet-smelling yellow, red, orange, or purple flowers. 2. countable noun If you say that someone is a wallflower, you mean that they are shy and do not get involved in dancing or talking to people at social events. I was something of a wallflower; I was terribly shy. wallflower in British English (ˈwɔːlˌflaʊə) noun 1. Also called: gillyflower a plant, Cheiranthus cheiri, of S Europe, grown for its clusters of yellow, orange, brown, red, or purple fragrant flowers and naturalized on old walls, cliffs, etc: family Brassicaceae (crucifers) 2. any of numerous other crucifers of the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum, having orange or yellow flowers 3. informal a person who stays on the fringes of a dance or party on account of lacking a partner or being shy wallflower in American English (ˈwɔlˌflaʊər) noun 1. any of a number of perennial or annual garden plants (genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum) of the crucifer family, having racemes of cross-shaped flowers, usually yellow or orange; esp., a common perennial (C. cheiri) having racemes of fragrant, colorful flowers 2. Informal a person, esp. a girl, who merely looks on at a dance, etc., sometimes from shyness but usually from not having been chosen as a partner Examples of 'wallflower' in a sentence wallflower Glaswegians emerged as the wallflowers at 58 per cent below the average number of social days and nights out attended. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Word lists with wallflower flower
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