| Pronunciation: | | 'flawuring
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| Matching Terms: | | floweriness, flowering almond, flowering ash, flowering cherry, flowering crab, flowering fern, flowering glume, flowering hazel, flowering onion, flowering plant, flowering quince, flowering raspberry, flowering shrub, flowering spurge, flowering stone, flowering tobacco, flowering tree, flowering wintergreen
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | abloom, anthesis, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, blossomy, efflorescence, efflorescent, florescence, flowerlike, flowery, inflorescence, lilylike, mature, orchidlike, pealike, petallike, roselike, unfolding |
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| | Antonyms: | | bloomless, flowerless |
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| | See Also: | | development, evolution, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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