Usually means: Shy person avoiding the spotlight.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wallflower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wallflower: Merriam-Webster
  3. wallflower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wallflower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wallflower: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wallflower: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wallflower, wallflower: Wordnik
  8. wallflower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wallflower: Wiktionary
  10. wallflower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wallflower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wallflower: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wallflower: Dictionary.com
  14. wallflower: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. The Wallflower (manga), The Wallflower, Wallflower (Bob Dylan song), Wallflower (D. Krall album), Wallflower (Diana Krall album), Wallflower (Fringe), Wallflower (band), Wallflower (comics), Wallflower (disambiguation), Wallflower (film), Wallflower (people), Wallflower (song), Wallflower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wallflower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wallflower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wallflower: Rhymezone
  19. Wallflower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Wallflower: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. wallflower: FreeDictionary.org
  22. wallflower: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. wallflower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wallflower: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  3. Wallflower: bizterms.net
  4. Wallflower: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Wallflower: Harvey Financial
  6. Wallflower: Investopedia
  7. wallflower: Financial dictionary
  8. Wallflower: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wallflower: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wallflower: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See wallflowers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
noun:  Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
noun:  A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.
noun:  (informal) Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.
verb:  (intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.

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