adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

noun:

• algal bloom; water bloom ➜ 青粉【あおこ】
• lotus flower
• Japanese sea perch; Japanese sea bass - archaism - female language ➜ 鱸

noun:

• ornamental railing top; bridge railing-post knob
• Welsh onion flower; leek flower
• hosta; plantain lily - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• snowdrop (Galanthus spp.) ➜ スノードロップ
• snow falling like flower petals; snow on a tree resembling a flower
• red snow ➜ 赤雪

noun:

• princess - honorific language
• spoiled girl; hothouse flower
• glue

noun:

• bright red
• crimson lotus flower

noun:

• happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death ［かいろうどうけつ］ - four character idiom
• Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• hana awase (type of hanafuda game) ➜ 花札
• flower-comparing contest (Heian period) ➜ 花競べ

noun:

• udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata)
• something very rare (from the legend that it flowers once in 3000 years)
• Japanese fiber banana flower ➜ 芭蕉
• green lacewing eggs ➜ 草蜉蝣

noun:

• capital (of a column) - Architecture term
• stigma; top part of the pistil in a flower - Biology term

noun:

• iron (steel) wire
• Chinese clematis; Clematis florida; leather flower

noun:

• formal folding fan made of hinoki cypress
• blackberry lily (Belamcanda Chinensis); leopard lily; leopard flower

noun / ~する noun:

• dharma transmission (formal confirmation of a student's awakening by his master) - Buddhism term
• certificate of proficiency (in flower arrangement, etc.)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• platter; serving plate ➜ さらばち・皿鉢料理
• crown of the head - archaism
• flower arrangement in a shallow vase, using sand ［砂鉢］

~の noun / noun:

• uncivilized; uncivilised; primitive; savage
• undeveloped (land); unexplored (territory, field, etc.)
• unbloomed (flower)

noun / ~する noun:

• straining; draining

noun:

• drainer; strainer; colander
• cutwater (on ship); forefoot; drip (on building); flashing; throating; starling (on bridge)
• stone skipping; skipping rocks; ducks and drakes

noun / ~する noun:

• snipping the stem of a cut flower without raising it out of water

noun:

• flowering crab apple (Malus halliana)
• Kaido crab apple (Malus micromalus)
• Chinese flowering apple (Malus spectabilis)
• Siberian crab apple (Malus baccata)
• aronia (flower)