1.
pressed flower; flower-pressing craft
Flowers or leaves dried flat under weight, used for cards, framed art, and craft. Also the craft of making them — a popular hobby for children and a long-standing decorative art.
押し花を作った。
I made pressed flowers.
本の間に挟んで押し花にした。
I pressed it between the pages of a book to make a pressed flower.
祖母は押し花で作ったしおりを大切に保管していた。
My grandmother carefully kept the bookmark she had made from pressed flowers.
押し (pressing) + 花 (flower); the second element voices to ばな in the compound. A classic summer-vacation craft project for elementary school children.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 押し花を作る: to make pressed flowers
- 押し花にする: to turn into a pressed flower
- 押し花のしおり: a pressed-flower bookmark
- 押し花教室: pressed-flower class
SIMILAR WORDS:
- ドライフラワー: dried flowers — air-dried, three-dimensional, not pressed flat
- 標本: specimen — a more scientific term, for plants preserved for study