flowering

flowering
    adj 1: having a flower or bloom; "a flowering plant" [ant:
           {flowerless}, {nonflowering}]
    n 1: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
         [syn: {blossoming}, {flowering}, {florescence},
         {inflorescence}, {anthesis}, {efflorescence}]
    2: a developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum
       culture" [syn: {unfolding}, {flowering}]
    

Flowering \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.
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   {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.
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Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowered}
   (flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowering}.] [From the noun.
   Cf. {Flourish}.]
   1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to
      produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
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   2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.
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            Their lusty and flowering age.        --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).
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            When flowered my youthful spring.     --Spenser.
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   3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
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            That beer did flower a little.        --Bacon.
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   4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]
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            Observations which have flowered off. --Milton.
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Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, n.
   1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom;
      florification.
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   2. The act of adorning with flowers.
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103 Moby Thesaurus words for "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