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  2. Plants in Christian iconography - Wikipedia

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    The name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. [4] [3] Daisy: Innocence, beauty, salvation, modesty, purity and love: Simplicity [3] Clover: Holy Trinity, Patrick of Ireland: Three petals that compose a flower [3] Hyacinth: Prudence, constancy, desire of ...

  3. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war.

  4. Hexafoil - Wikipedia

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    The name hexafoil is sometimes also used to refer to a different geometric design that is used as a traditional element of Gothic architecture, [21] created by overlapping six circular arcs to form a flower-like image. [22] [23] The hexafoil design is modeled after the six petal lily, for its symbolism of purity and relation to the Trinity. [24]

  5. Reading These Flower Quotes Will Have You Feeling Fresh ... - AOL

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    Many of the sayings on this list pay homage to the show-stopping colors and scents of flowers, like these words from novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch: "People from a planet without flowers ...

  6. Palmette - Wikipedia

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    Among the oldest forms of the palmette in ancient Egypt was a 'rosette' or daisy-like lotus flower [5] emerging from a 'V' of foliage or petals resembling the akhet hieroglyph depicting the setting or rising sun at the point where it touches the two mountains of the horizon – 'dying', being 'reborn' and giving life to the earth.

  7. Fleur-de-lis - Wikipedia

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    Fleur-de-lis is the stylized depiction of the lily flower. The name itself derives from ancient Greek λείριον > Latin lilium > French lis.. The lily has always been the symbol of fertility and purity, and in Christianity it symbolizes the Immaculate Conception.

  8. Rose symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meaning to the rose, though these are seldom understood in-depth. Examples of deeper meanings lie within the language of flowers, and how a rose may have a different meaning in arrangements. Examples of common meanings of different coloured roses are: true love (red), mystery (blue ...

  9. He loves me... he loves me not - Wikipedia

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    A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases "He (or she) loves me," and "He loves me not," while picking one petal off a flower (usually an ox-eye daisy) for each phrase. The phrase they speak on picking off the last petal supposedly represents the truth between the object of their affection loving them or not.