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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Frequenting flowers, especially to feed on nectar or pollen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, flower-loving, as a bee.
  • Of or pertaining to the Anthophila.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Living or growing on flowers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective feeding on flowers

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