Below you will find example sentences with "female flowers". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Female Flowers in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 18
  • Discovered as a combination around: flowers
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 19.2 words

Words in this phrase

female flowers

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • female can mean: Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. Frequent word
  • flowers can mean: plural of flower Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 5 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

male and female flowers of the 2× bees foraging female flowers 1× empty and female flowers have empty 1× female flowers are especially 1× female flowers produce two 1× flowering of female flowers in zucchini 1× flowers and female flowers in one 1× male and female flowers 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

male and female 2× both male and 1× disciform heads have 1× female fig wasps 1× female flowers are 1× female flowers produce 1×

Common sentence endings:

to female flowers 2× 13 fruit set 1× and female flowers 1× cucurbita pepo l 1× flowers is required 1× flowers only seeds 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

male 11× fruit 5× pollen 5× two 4× set 4× may 3× fig 3× produce 3× pollination 3× plants 3× separate 3× plant 3×

Related phrases

first female family flowers adult female female athletes female characters two female black female

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around flowers:

family flowers 16×

Just before it in the phrase index:

female characters female athletes felony possession felony counts felony count felony charges

Just after it in the phrase index:

feral cats ferris wheel ferry terminal festival director few days few decades

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

female athletes female characters

Same ending:

family flowers

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "female flowers" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 19.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as male and female flowers of the, bees foraging female flowers, male, fruit and pollen stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first female, family flowers, adult female and family flowers, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with female flowers

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

These plants typically produce separate male and female flowers. (9 words)

Some producers blow collected pollen over the female flowers. (9 words)

Little pollen has been seen on bees foraging female flowers. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

In depositing her eggs, the female also deposits pollen she picked up from her original host fig. This pollinates some of the female flowers on the inside surface of the fig and allows them to mature. (36 words)

Disciform heads have only disc flowers, but may have two kinds (male flowers and female flowers) in one head, or may have different heads of two kinds (all male, or all female). (32 words)

The two flower morphs are however difficult to observe as they are rather morphologically similar; male flowers have a pistillode with the ovaries empty and female flowers have empty, smaller anthers (staminodes). (32 words)

Example sentences (18)

Disciform heads have only disc flowers, but may have two kinds (male flowers and female flowers) in one head, or may have different heads of two kinds (all male, or all female).

Female fig wasps can reach the ovaries of short female flowers with their ovipositors, but not long female flowers.

Female flowers produce two to three times more nectar than male flowers.

In Malaysia, where only about 1% of the female flowers set fruit, no fruit is set on bagged flowers while hand pollination resulted in 13% fruit set.

Pollinators may maintain a fidelity to either male or hermaphroditic flowers (trees), thus limiting pollination and fruit set under natural conditions where crossing between male and female flowers is required.

The two flower morphs are however difficult to observe as they are rather morphologically similar; male flowers have a pistillode with the ovaries empty and female flowers have empty, smaller anthers (staminodes).

Thus, the short female flowers grow wasps and the long flowers only seeds.

In depositing her eggs, the female also deposits pollen she picked up from her original host fig. This pollinates some of the female flowers on the inside surface of the fig and allows them to mature.

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QTL analysis of early flowering of female flowers in zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.).

These plants typically produce separate male and female flowers.

Both male and female flowers are faintly sweet-scented and have functional nectaries at the ovary base.

Female flowers are especially rare and do not produce fruit even when hand-pollinated.

Its hair is also helpful in pollination where pollen can be hooked on and transported to female flowers.

Little pollen has been seen on bees foraging female flowers.

Male and female flowers of the hop plant develop on separate plants ( dioecious ).

Male and female flowers of the hop plant usually develop on separate plants (that is, the plant is dioecious ), although fertile monoecious individuals appear occasionally.

Some producers blow collected pollen over the female flowers.

The foul odor attracts insects such as flies, which transport pollen from male to female flowers.

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