wall-flower

A form of wallflower — Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

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nounwall-flower (plural wall-flowers)

plural wall-flowers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of wallflower.

    The wall-flower—the wall-flower! How beautiful it blooms' It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs;

    1829, Alaric Alexander Watts, The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry
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    A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.

    1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1

    The upper part of the wall was more gaudily attired, in all the variations of green moss, yellow and blue creepers, and the dark red of the wall-flower.

    1835, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, The Christian Lady’s magazine, page 2
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