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Wallflower   /wˈɔlflˌaʊər/   Listen
Wallflower

noun
1.
Any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers.
2.
Perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum.  Synonyms: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri.
3.
Remains on sidelines at social event.






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"Wallflower" Quotes from Famous Books



... sensual of the senses. It may be so, but it is surely also the sense that is most closely related to the memory. Old landscapes, old happinesses old gardens, old people, come to life again—at times, almost unbearably so—with the smell of wallflower or hay or the sea. It may be, however, that this is not a universal experience. Some of us, no doubt, live more in our memories than ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... jealously exclude the view. So much for Sorrento in its winter dress. But when the spring comes, here truly is a transformation from cold and torpor! The soft warm air is redolent of the penetrating fragrance of orange blossom, of stocks, of jessamine, of wallflower, and of a hundred odorous plants and shrubs from each garden and grove behind the many obstructing walls. The balconies and gate-pillars are draped in scented masses of the beautiful wistaria, which in Italy produces its long pendant ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... of sweet-peas, cabbage-roses, larkspur, gardener's garters, honesty, poppies, and peonies, grew in homely companionship with gooseberry and currant bushes, with potatoes and pease. The scent of the sunset came in reality from a cheval de frise of wallflower on the coping of the low stone wall behind where she was sitting with her Milton. She read aloud in a low voice that sonnet beginning "Lady that in the prime of earliest youth." As she finished it, a voice, as low, said, almost in ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... shop-man in a Wallflower Hair-Powder and Genuine Macassar Oil Warehouse, kept by three Frenchmen, called Moosies Peroukey, in the West End of London. But, though our natural enemies, he writes me that he has found them agreeable and shatty masters, full of good ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... wild flowers, although it was so late in the season that the glory of the summer was well-nigh past. But the lupin, the moss-pink, and the yellow wallflower, with all the varieties of the helianthus, the aster, and the solidago, spread their gay charms around. The gentlemen gathered clusters of the bittersweet (celastrus scandens) from the overhanging boughs to make a wreath for my hat, as we ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... the pensive little boy in the oval frame—aged eight years—who was, a few springs later, 'a most expensive and vicious young man,' and was now a suffering and outcast old one, and wondering from what a small seed the hemlock or the wallflower grows, and how microscopic are the beginnings of the kingdom of God or of the mystery of iniquity in a ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... ranges. The ranges I named the Erica Ranges, after one of my sisters. All along the banks of the creek splendid green acacia and grass was growing, and a most inviting-looking plant standing some six feet high, with greenish-grey stems and leaves, and a flower not unlike wallflower. Such a place at once suggested camping, and we were proceeding to unload when Godfrey remarked that this pretty plant was very like a most deadly Queensland poison plant; he was not sure; I had never seen it before, nor had Breaden. The risk, however, was too great; it might be poison; ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie



Words linked to "Wallflower" :   genus Cheiranthus, Cheiranthus cheiri, Siberian wall flower, flower, genus Erysimum, shy person, Cheiranthus, Erysimum, Cheiranthus allionii, Erysimum cheiri, shrinking violet, Erysimum allionii



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