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flowering

DEFINITIONS OF: flowering

1

n the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Synonyms:
anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence
Type 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

n a developmental process

“the flowering of antebellum culture”
Synonyms:
unfolding
Type of:
development, evolution
a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

adj having a flower or bloom

“a flowering plant”
Antonyms:
flowerless, nonflowering
without flower or bloom and not producing seeds
spore-bearing
bearing spores instead of producing seeds
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