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Definition of Flowering

1. Adjective. Having a flower or bloom. "A flowering plant"

2. Noun. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.

3. Noun. A developmental process. "The flowering of antebellum culture"

Definition of Flowering

1. a. Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.

2. n. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.

Definition of Flowering

1. Verb. (present participle of flower) ¹

2. Noun. The action of the verb to flower. ¹

3. Noun. Blooming ¹

4. Adjective. (''used only before the noun'') Of a plant, that produces flowers. ¹

5. Adjective. Having flowers that are opening. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flowering

1. flower [v] - See also: flower

Medical Definition of Flowering

1. 1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. 2. The act of adorning with flowers. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering

flowerers floweret flowerets flowerette flowerettes flowerflies flowerfly flowerful flowerhead flowerheads

flowerier floweriest flowerily floweriness flowerinesses flowering (current term) flowering almond flowering ash flowering cherry flowering crab

flowering fern flowering glume flowering hazel flowering onion flowering plants flowering quince flowering raspberry flowering shrub flowering spurge

Literary usage of Flowering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"(i) flowering branch of Pereskia pereskia. (2 and 3) Fruit of Pereskia pereskia. ... (6) flowering joint of Opuntia drummondii 102 PLATE 18. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"flowering scale indurated at maturity, firmer than the empty scales. Spikelets with no basal callus : flowering scale awnless, margins inrolled. ..."

3. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"Relation between the Weather and the flowering of Fruit-trees. ... He points out that the time of flowering in the spring of a given variety of fruits is ..."

4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"Panicles very lax ; pericarp adherent ; grain enclosed in the flowering glume ... flowering glume usually hyaline and more delicate than the empty glumes, ..."

5. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"flowering consists of the opening or expansion of these envelops, ... PERIOD OF flowering. Each species of plant has its own special season for flowering, ..."

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