Flowering

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  • v. Present participle of flower.
  • n. The action of the verb to flower.
  • n. Blooming
  • adj. Of a plant, that produces flowers.
  • adj. Having flowers that are opening.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants
  • n. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
  • n. The act of adorning with flowers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or state denoted by the verb flower, in any of its senses: as, the flowering of the bean.
  • n. The shoals or strata of fish-feed often seen in the water about spawning-time.
  • n. The spawning of pelagic fishes, which sometimes cover large areas of the surface of the sea with their spawn.
  • n. The appearance of the surface of lakes and other large bodies of fresh water due to the occurrence of considerable quantities of algæ, usually blue-green forms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  • adj. having a flower or bloom
  • n. a developmental process
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ontogeny    development    ontogenesis    maturation    growing    growth    evolution   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Verb Stem
    flower   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cowering    devouring    empowering    glowering    powering    scouring    showering    souring    towering