trigger flower
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[edit]Noun
[edit]trigger flower (plural trigger flowers)
- 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.
- 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 28: