trigger flower

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Noun[edit]

trigger flower (plural trigger flowers)

  1. Synonym of trigger plant
    • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 28:
      Beside one cairn he notices a little purple trigger flower, finger-tip big, and delicately, with the end of a fern, he impersonates a bee so that the pollen-laden trigger within the flower is released and swings up to strike the fern.
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