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View synonyms for flowering

flowering

[ flou-er-ing ]

adjective

  1. bearing flowers.


flowering

/ ˈflaʊərɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of certain species of plants) capable of producing conspicuous flowers

    a flowering ash

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • non·flower·ing adjective
  • pre·flower·ing adjective
  • un·flower·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flowering1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; flower, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

It relied on the erasure of the most prolific flowering of indigenous people in the United States.

If you’re craving a flowering plant that won’t send your pointy-eared friend to the vet, check out the Christmas cactus—a plant that will recognize day length, temperature, and light levels to only bloom around the holidays.

A big theme was the flowering of ad-hoc coalitions in areas like deforestation, cutting methane emissions, speeding EV growth and more.

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“A lot of people do it because they think it’s going to enhance flowering, but it actually delays flowering onset as much as a month,” said Tom Smiley, senior arboricultural researcher at Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories in Charlotte.

In the world’s largest seagrass restoration project, scientists have observed an ecosystem from birth to full flowering.

Green plants in pre-flowering stages may contain significant protein but not fat.

She is a young television mogul, actress, comedy writer, and flowering feminist in the public eye.

But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.

Things like “excessive napping” and “wall flowering” are penalized.

I look forward to an even richer intellectual flowering in the months ahead.

Wreaths, bouquets, baskets, and flowering-plants in moss-covered pots.

Flowering shrubs in pots were ranged up these steps, while the sides of the porch proper were crammed with them.

The wing in which the family lived had been surrounded with flowering plants and shrubbery.

The river pool commenced to blacken, while flowering rushes tossed their shivering heads and murmured.

In this yard were lilacs of a large growth, roses of various kinds, and flowering almonds.

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