delicate flower

collocation in English

meaningsofdelicateandflower

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delicate
adjective
uk
/ˈdel.ɪ.kət/us
/ˈdel.ə.kət/
needing careful treatment, especially because ...
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flower
noun[C]
uk
/flaʊər/us
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
the part of a plant that is often brightly coloured and has a pleasant smell, or the type of plant that ...
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(Definition ofdelicateandflowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is still adelicateflower, but some notice is being taken of it.
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As both speakers so far have observed, sadly, but almost horribly predictably, this week peace seems a moredelicateflowerthan ever.
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The only thing that can happen is that it is a frail anddelicateflower—the process of encouraging investment.
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Confidence—thatdelicateflower—is being seriously eroded with severe economic and financial consequences.
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But confidence is adelicateflower, and it needs to be nurtured.
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The party political broadcast is adelicateflowerthat we must protect.
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The jury system is adelicateflower.
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That is thedelicateflowerof democracy.
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This lovely anddelicatefloweris in fact revolutionizing the treatment of cancer through a number of chemotherapy drugs.
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By the 1980s his subject matter focused on statuesque male and female nudes,delicateflowerstill lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities.
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He called party political broadcasts "delicate flowers" that must be protected.
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They are such delicate flowers that they cannot stand criticism.
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Small businesses are delicate flowers, and it takes little to disrupt the investment for growth and development that is the necessary to our future economic success.
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The tiny, delicate flowers, only 46 mm in diameter, usually arise from the leaf axils, but also directly from the branchlets.
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Along the sides of the well-kept grassy runway are rows of luscious green plants with small, delicate flowers hanging from their branches.
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It is advised that visitors are careful while trekking, so the delicate flowers are not damaged.
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Blossoms of ice: these delicate flowers sprout only in winter, but you won't find them catalogued in any herbal.
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The moderately delicate flowers occur singly on flower stalks that arise from the area between the stems and leaf petioles.
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Poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.
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