Do you recognise these flowers?
How do you call them in your mother tongue?
Does the name of the flower have some special explanation of it’s meaning?
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LET YOUR LANGUAGE SPEAK! 
Really nice pictures! The world wouldn’t be the same without flowers and Spring. We all love flowers and many of them are very similar to English: rose( rosa, in Portuguese), orchid (orquídea), tulip(túlipa), gardenia( gardénia) and violet( violeta). Some of them are common people’s names too:Rosa, Orquídea, Violeta, etc.
In Lithuanian these flowers are called:
– Neužmirštuolė – meaning ‘the unforgetable’ (similar to the english Forget-me-not)
– Kiaulpienė/pienė – the name is derived from ‘pig’s milk’ or just ‘milk’ because of the white sap inside the stem.
– Pakalnutė – means something like ‘the hillside girl’ since its flowers on the stem look a bit like a hill. (Did you also know that it is very poisonous? I would never ever have thought)
– Tulpė (very similar to the English ‘tulip’) – it actually comes from a Turkish word meaning ‘turban’