child abuse | the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children |
child neglect | failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child |
play child's play | activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules, Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child |
child's game | a game enjoyed by children |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
child pornography kiddie porn kiddy porn | the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films |
flower gardening floriculture | the cultivation of flowering plants |
childcare child care | a service involving care for other people's children |
Venus's flower basket | a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework, found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia |
artificial flower | a handmade imitation of a blossom |
child's room | a bedroom for a child |
florist florist shop flower store | a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold |
flower arrangement floral arrangement | a decorative arrangement of flowers |
flowerbed flower bed bed of flowers | a bed in which flowers are growing |
flower chain | flowers strung together in a chain |
flower garden | a garden featuring flowering plants |
child's body | the body of a human child |
flower power | a counterculture of young people in the US during the s and s |
developmental psychology genetic psychology child psychology | the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children |
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel |
flower people hippies hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
United Nations Children's Fund United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
child welfare agency child welfare service | an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children |
Addis Ababa New Flower capital of Ethiopia | the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city, located in central Ethiopia |
bastard by-blow love child illegitimate child illegitimate whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
c child kid youngster minor shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
child kid | a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age, they had three children, they were able to send their kids to college |
child baby | an immature childish person, he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived, stop being a baby! |
child | a member of a clan or tribe, the children of Israel |
child prodigy infant prodigy wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age, Mozart was a child prodigy |
female child girl little girl | a youthful female person, the baby was a girl, the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle |
flower girl | a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession |
flower girl | a woman who sells flowers in the street |
fosterhild foster child fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents |
hippie hippy hipster flower child | someone who rejects the established culture, advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle |
latchkey child | a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) |
male child boy | a youthful male person, the baby was a boy, she made the boy brush his teeth every night, most soldiers are only boys in uniform |
pederast paederast child molester | a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes, she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy |
schoolchild school-age child pupil | a young person attending school (up through senior high school) |
waif street child | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned, street children beg or steal in order to survive |
flower bloom blossom | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts |
flower | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
wildflower wild flower | wild or uncultivated flowering plant |
apetalous flower | flower having no petals |
flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae |
ray flower ray floret | small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower |
petal flower petal | part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored |
buttercup butterflower butter-flower crowfoot goldcup kingcup | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
monkshood helmetflower helmet flower Aconitum napellus | a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers, the dried leaves and roots yield aconite |