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.
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