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Spell Bee Word: Floral


What does floral mean?

Word: Floral

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Floral means made of flowers, or decorated with pictures or patterns of flowers.

How do you spell floral?

Syllables: flo - ral

Tricky part: The last syllable is said so lightly that many students write el or le at the end; it is spelt al.

Watch out for: florel, florle

Memory tip: Petals make up a floral display, and petal ends in the same al.

Floral in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma's new dress has a pale floral pattern on blue silk.

Example 2: For the art contest, Finn painted a floral border around his poster.

Example 3: The hotel lobby had a huge floral display of orchids and lilies.

Fun Fact

Floral shares its Latin root for 'flower' with florist, and with flora, a word for all the plant life of a place, as in the phrase flora and fauna.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

flooral

a) l
b) o
c) a
d) r

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b) o. The word has nothing to do with a floor, so it keeps a single o.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

floral

a) fruity
b) leafy
c) flowery
d) stony

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c) flowery. Both words describe flowers; fruit, leaves and stones are different things altogether.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rlofal

a) moral
b) florid
c) flora
d) floral

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d) floral. Count the l's: there are two in the jumble, and only one option uses both along with the f.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) floral
b) accomodate
c) tommorow
d) embarass

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a) floral. Accommodate has two c's and two m's, embarrass has double r and double s, and tomorrow has one m and two r's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which cushion cover has a floral design?

a) one printed with stripes
b) one printed with roses
c) one printed with boats
d) one printed with stars

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b) one printed with roses

2. Neha says her new soap has a floral smell. What does it probably smell of?

a) rose petals
b) warm toast
c) fresh lemons
d) pine needles

Show answer

a) rose petals

Associated Words

Words that end in -ral: equilateral, literal, agricultural, federal, unnatural, temporal

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interrupt, obnoxious, recyclable, tectonic, absorption, astrophysicist, colonel, diplomacy

Next steps

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