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FLOWERING
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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 ("flowering" 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)
Derivation:
flower (produce or yield flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A developmental process
Example:
the flowering of antebellum culture
Synonyms:
flowering; unfolding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("flowering" is a kind of...):
development; evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a flower or bloom
Example:
a flowering plant
Classified under:
Antonym:
flowerless (without flower or bloom and not producing seeds)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb flower
Context examples:
A heavy-scented broom and many flowering shrubs had almost taken the place of grass.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The dried leaves and flowering tops of the Cannabis sativa plant, or an extract from the plant.
(Marijuana, NCI Dictionary)
A genus of nine species of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae, all native to eastern North America.
(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)
The round, black berries of the flowering shrub Vitex agnus-castus, native to Mediterranean countries and Asia.
(Chaste Berry, NCI Thesaurus)
They dated the fossil to the Cretaceous period, roughly 99 million years ago, the same period as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and early mammals, sharks, and flowering plants.
(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)
Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The strength that had always poured out from him to her was now flowering in his impassioned voice, his flashing eyes, and the vigor of life and intellect surging in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Orchard caretakers told the team that different nutrients and fertilizers were sprayed on the trees before flowering.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
CLE peptides are involved in cellular development and response to stress, and they are present throughout the plant kingdom, from green algae to flowering plants.
(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)
A herbal remedy derived from the root of the perennial flowering plant Caulophyllum thalictroides grown in the eastern North America.
(Blue Cohosh Root, NCI Thesaurus)
