freesianoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfriː.ʒə/us/ˈfriː.ʒə/a plant with pleasant-smelling yellow, white, pink, or purple flowers
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Flowers & flowering plants
- anemone
- antirrhinum
- aster
- aubretia
- begonia
- catkin
- delphinium
- dogwood
- evening primrose
- forget-me-not
- forsythia
- narcissus
- nasturtium
- oleander
- orchid
- pansy
- posy
- wild flower
- wisteria
- woodbine
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Examples from literature
- Freesia.—This elegant and delicately perfumed flower is annually raised in large numbers from seed.
- Freesias may be potted six or more in a pot of mellow soil, and then started into growth at once.
- She bowed her face over the flowers—the freesias so sweet and spring-like, the scarlet anemones flaunting over the table.
- The white or yellowish bell-shaped flowers of freesia are produced on slender stalks just above the foliage, to the number of six to eight in a cluster.
- There was a bowl of freesias and scarlet anemones on the table.