flower head

1. 1.

   a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae

   Broaderinflorescence

   Partsray flower

Questions about flower head

What does flower head mean?

flower head means "a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae".

Is flower head a common word?

flower head is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.