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ANTHESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Synonyms:
anthesis; blossoming; efflorescence; florescence; flowering; inflorescence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("anthesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)