As nouns the difference between flower and monkeypod

is that flower is a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction or flower can be something that flows, such as a river while monkeypod is , a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.

As a verb flower

is to put forth blooms.