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Flowering   /flˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Flowering  adj.  (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.



noun
Flowering  n.  
1.
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
2.
The act of adorning with flowers.



verb
Flower  v. t.  To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.



Flower  v. i.  (past & past part. flowered; pres. part. flowering)  
1.
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
2.
To come into the finest or fairest condition. "Their lusty and flowering age." "When flowered my youthful spring."
3.
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. "That beer did flower a little."
4.
To come off as flowers by sublimation. (Obs.) "Observations which have flowered off."






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"Flowering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the necessity of packing an outfit. But arrangements for horses and packers are easily made, and each year an increasing number of parties make Spray Park their headquarters, spending, if they are wise, at least a week in this wide region of flowering alpine valleys and commanding heights. From there they go south, over the west-side glaciers, or east, across the Carbon and through the great White river country. They camp on the south side of the Sluiskin ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams

... fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together &c v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement &c (completion) 729. flowering, fructification; inflorescence. bringing forth &c v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^; gestation &c (maturation) 673; assimilation; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... valley farthest from them was a small lake. Near the mouth of the tunnel the earth was clothed with long grass and flowering bushes and dotted with low trees. But elsewhere the ground was dazzlingly white, as though the snow lay deep upon it. Badshah halted among the trees, and the old elephants passed him and went on in the direction of the ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

... his ground-cab at the entrance of a great park in the center of the city, but directed the driver to take his luggage on to the hotel. Then Hanlon went in to sit on a bench beneath a beautiful, flowering ba'amba tree. ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans

... midway, be your water stream or pool, Cross willow-twigs, and massy boulders fling— A line of stations for the halting wing To dry in summer sunshine, has it shipped A cupful aft, or deep in Neptune dipped. Plant cassias green around, thyme redolent, Full-flowering succory with heavy scent, And violet-beds to drink the channel'd stream. And let your hives (sewn concave, seam to seam, Of cork; or of the supple osier twined) Have narrow entrances; for frosts will bind Honey ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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