About The Word Flowering
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Flowering
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What's The Definition Of Flowering?
[n] the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
[n] a developmental process; "the flowering of ante-bellum culture" [adj] producing or having flowers; "a flowering branch"; "flowering plants" [adj] bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" Synonyms | Synonyms for Flowering: abloom | anthesis | blooming | bloomy | blossoming | blossomy | efflorescence | efflorescent | florescence | flowerlike | flowery | inflorescence | lilylike | mature | orchidlike | pealike | petallike | roselike | unfolding Related Terms | Find terms related to Flowering: accomplishment | advance | advancement | amplification | anthesis | balmy | bloom | blooming | bloomy | blossom | blossoming | blow | blowing | booming | budding | burgeoning | clear | crescent | developed | development | developmental change | efflorescence | efflorescent | elaboration | enlargement | evolution | evolutionary change | evolvement | evolving | expansion | explication | exuberant | fair | fat | floral | floreate | florescence | florescent | floriate | floriated | floricultural | florid | flourishing | flowerage | flowered | flowery | fruiting | full bloom | full-fledged | full-grown | fully developed | furtherance | garden | going strong | gradual change | growing | grown | grown-up | growth | halcyon | horticultural | hortulan | hypertrophied | in bloom | in blossom | in flower | in full swing | in good case | inflorescent | juvenal | juvenescent | juvenile | maturation | mature | multiflorous | natural development | natural growth | nonviolent change | overdeveloped | overgrown | palmy | piping | progress | progression | prospering | radiciflorous | rhizanthous | ripening | rise | rosy | sleek | sprouting | thriving | unfolding | unfoldment | uniflorous | upgrowth | vigorous | young | youngling | youthful | youthlike | youthy See Also | development | evolution | growing | growth | maturation | ontogenesis | ontogeny Flowering In Webster's Dictionary \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.)
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many
names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood;
flowering almond, etc.
{Flowering fern}, a genus of showy ferns ({Osmunda}), with
conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet
places.
{Flowering plants}, plants which have stamens and pistils,
and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; --
distinguished from {flowerless plants}.
{Flowering rush}, a European rushlike plant ({Butomus
umbellatus}), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
\Flow"er*ing\, n. 1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. 2. The act of adorning with flowers. |
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