In the ladies' cabin a pink and white Wilton carpet, as soft as mush, and glorified with a ravishing pattern of gigantic flowers.

We hiked through cactus gardens under the gigantic cartoonish flowers of 16-foot-high century plants.

She was lying in the salad bed, her skirt flown out like some gigantic, rusty flower blooming amid the young lettuces.

Despite the fear that now had her in a chokehold, she thought improbably of some exotic and fantastic flower-a gigantic flower of fire.

The butterfly backed clumsily out of the gigantic flower.

In the clearing beyond, gigantic flowers of a dozen shapes and colors bloomed in the sudden sunlight.

From tanks and planters in its topmost room grew gigantic flowers.

Change the analogy again: Think of them as the bees they so resemble, the pollinators of a gigantic monoclinous flower we call the Solar System.

They looked like nothing so much as the petals and stamens of a gigantic flower, but they were definitely made of something grayish.

It was as if a gigantic green-stemmed and white-blossomed flower swayed above the towers, the roar filled the sky.