SEMANTICS OF THE FLORONYM FLOWER IN THE UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGY

Abstract

The article focuses on the semantics of the floronym flower on the basis of idioms and paroemias of the Ukrainian and English languages. The floronym is scrutinized in the contrastive aspect. The symbolical meaning of the floronym is characterised. Certain universal and specific national features of the floronym flower in the structure of proverbs and idioms are identified.