'Flowering' definitions:
Definition of 'flowering'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having a flower or bloom; "a flowering plant" [ant: flowerless, nonflowering]
noun
The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence]
noun
A developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum culture" [syn: unfolding, flowering]
Definition of '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]
Definition of 'Flowering'
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]
Definition of 'Flowering'
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]
Synonyms of 'flowering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- advance,
- advancement,
- amplification,
- anthesis,
- balmy,
- bloom,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossom,
- blossoming,
- blow,
- blowing,
- booming,
- budding,
- burgeoning,
- clear,
- crescent,
- developed,
- development,
- developmental change,
- efflorescence,
- efflorescent,
- elaboration,
- enlargement,
- evolution,
- evolutionary change,
- evolvement,
- evolving,
- expansion,
- explication,
- exuberant,
- fair,
- fat,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescence,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- florid,
- flourishing,
- flowerage,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- fruiting,
- full bloom,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- furtherance,
- garden,
- going strong,
- gradual change,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- growth,
- halcyon,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- hypertrophied,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- in full swing,
- in good case,
- inflorescent,
- juvenal,
- juvenescent,
- juvenile,
- maturation,
- mature,
- multiflorous,
- natural development,
- natural growth,
- nonviolent change,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- palmy,
- piping,
- progress,
- progression,
- prospering,
- radiciflorous,
- rhizanthous,
- ripening,
- rise,
- rosy,
- sleek,
- sprouting,
- thriving,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- uniflorous,
- upgrowth,
- vigorous,
- young,
- youngling,
- youthful,
- youthlike,
- youthy
Words containing 'Flowering'
- Flower,
- Flowered,
- Flowerer,
- Flowerful,
- flowers,
- Animal flower,
- Barren flower,
- Bee flower,
- Bottle flower,
- Butter flower,
- Cardinal flower,
- Christmas flower,
- Compass flower,
- Compound flower,
- Cut flowers,
- Discoid flower,
- Double flower,
- Evening flower,
- Everlasting flower,
- Feather flower,
- Fennel flower,
- Finger flower,
- Flannel flower,
- Flower Hill,
- Flower Mound,
- Flower State,
- Flower bed,
- Flower beetle,
- Flower bird,
- Flower bud,
- Flower clock,
- Flower head,
- Flower pecker,
- Flower piece,
- Flower stalk,
- Flowering currant,
- Flowering fern,
- Flowering plants,
- Flowering purslane,
- Flowering rush,
- Flowering wintergreen,
- Flowers of benzoin,
- Gnat flower,
- Gold flower,
- Grape flower,
- Immortal flowers,
- Imperfect flower,
- Joseph's flower,
- Leather flower,
- Ligulate flower,
- Lung flower,
- Luxuriant flower,
- Martial flowers,
- May flower,
- Mist flower,
- Moccasin flower,
- Monkey flower,
- Multiplicate flower,
- Nutmeg flower,
- Pasch flower,
- Paschal flower,
- Pasque flower,
- Passion flower,
- Pelican flower,
- Pencil flower,
- Pinkster flower,
- Proper flower,
- Ray flower,
- Rogation flower,
- Satin flower,
- Savanna flower,
- Sea flower,
- Separated flowers,
- Shell flower,
- Sidesaddle flower,
- Silk flower,
- Single flower,
- Slipper flower,
- Snail flower,
- Snow flower,
- Solar flowers,
- Star flower,
- Sultan flower,
- Tassel flower,
- Tern flowers,
- Tiger flower,
- Troll flower,
- Trumpet flower,
- Twin flower,
- United flowers,
- Velvet flower,
- Vigils of flowers,
- Watchings of flowers,
- Wax flower,
- apetalous flower,
- artificial flower,
- balloon flower,
- basket flower,
- bed of flowers,
- blanket flower,
- blood flower,
- butterfly flower,
- canarybird flower,
- carrion flower,
- chigger flower,
- corkscrew flower,
- crepe flower,
- cuckoo flower,
- cushion flower,
- fiesta flower,
- flame flower,
- flamingo flower,
- floral flowered,
- flower arrangement,
- flower chain,
- flower child,
- flower cluster,
- flower garden,
- flower gardening,
- flower girl,
- flower people,
- flower petal,
- flower power,
- flower store,
- flowering almond,
- flowering ash,
- flowering cherry,
- flowering crab,
- flowering glume,
- flowering hazel,
- flowering maple,
- flowering onion,
- flowering plant,
- flowering quince,
- flowering raspberry,
- flowering shrub,
- flowering spurge,
- flowering stone,
- flowering tobacco,
- flowering tree,
- flowers of zinc,
- gand flower,
- garland flower,
- globe flower,
- guinea flower,
- helmet flower,
- honey flower,
- new flower,
- paper flower,
- paradise flower,
- peacock flower,
- pincushion flower,
- pinwheel flower,
- proboscis flower,
- redbird flower,
- spathe flower,
- spider flower,
- starfish flower,
- treasure flower,
- wild flower,
- wonder flower,
- Ball-flower,
- Canary bird flower,
- Flower Hill, NY,
- Flower Mound, TX,
- Flower-fence,
- Flower-gentle,
- Gang-flower,
- Great flowered purslane,
- July-flower,
- Noon-flower,
- Saint Catharine's flower,
- Three-flowered,
- Venus's flower basket,
- autumn-flowering,
- blue cardinal flower,
- blue-flowered,
- butter-flower,
- dwarf flowering almond,
- early-flowering,
- eastern flowering dogwood,
- eastern pasque flower,
- evening trumpet flower,
- fall-flowering,
- few-flowered leek,
- finger-flower,
- flame-flower,
- flower-of-an-hour,
- flowers-of-an-hour,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- honey-flower,
- japanese flowering cherry,
- late-flowering,
- lyre-flower,
- mist-flower,
- nepal trumpet flower,
- old maid flower,
- orange-flowered,
- peacock flower fence,
- purple-flowered,
- red-flowered,
- scarlet musk flower,
- shad-flower,
- shall-flower,
- shell-flower,
- siberian wall flower,
- snail-flower,
- spring-flowering,
- summer-flowering,
- swan-flower,
- tail-flower,
- tongue-flower,
- violet-flowered,
- western wall flower,
- white-flowered,
- winter flowering cherry,
- winter-flowering,
- Flower-de-luce,
- Guinea-hen flower,
- Pea-flower tribe,
- Venus's flower-basket,
- five-flowered gentian,
- flower-cup fern,
- lace-flower vine,
- large-flowered calamint,
- large-flowered fiddleneck,
- large-flowering magnolia,
- non-flowering plant,
- one-flowered pyrola,
- one-flowered wintergreen,
- purple-flowering raspberry,
- violet-flowered petunia,
- narrow-leaved flame flower,
- red-flowered silky oak,
- Polemonium coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray