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Definition of 'flowering'

Having a flower or bloom; "a flowering plant" [ant: flowerless, nonflowering]

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence]

A developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum culture" [syn: unfolding, flowering]

From: GCIDE

Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowered (flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.]
1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. [1913 Webster]
2. To come into the finest or fairest condition. [1913 Webster]
Their lusty and flowering age. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
When flowered my youthful spring. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. [1913 Webster]
That beer did flower a little. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Observations which have flowered off. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, n.
1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. [1913 Webster]
2. The act of adorning with flowers. [1913 Webster]