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[ flou-er-ing ] / ˈflaʊ ər ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR flowering ON THESAURUS.COM
Origin of floweringMiddle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at flower, -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM floweringnon·flow·er·ing, adjectivepre·flow·er·ing, adjectiveun·flow·er·ing, adjectiveWords nearby floweringflowerer, floweret, flower fly, flower girl, flower head, flowering, flowering currant, flowering dogwood, flowering flax, flowering maple, flowering moss Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for floweringShe is a young television mogul, actress, comedy writer, and flowering feminist in the public eye. Comedians and Feminism Getting Laughs|Agunda Okeyo|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business. Putin's Crimea Is a Big Anti-Gay Casino|Anna Nemtsova|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Israel is a nation state like many nation states established as part of the flowering of nineteenth century European nationalism. An Ahistorical Tantrum In The Times|Gil Troy|March 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST And now spring is upon us—surely there is another Bolaño flowering. Beyond Another Bolaño Release: Other Great Latino Writers|Robert Birnbaum|April 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It was a typical suburban dwelling with a verdant lawn and lots of flowering shrubs. My Time With Betty Ford|Sandra McElwaine|July 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST Life can offer worse fates than to be in love in the springtime, under Seville's flowering trees. Heroic Spain|Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly This is a very common hedgerow plant, flowering from July to September. Field and Woodland Plants|William S. Furneaux It is an erect plant, from two to four feet high, flowering from June to August. Field and Woodland Plants|William S. Furneaux Now and then we met with beautiful flowers and flowering shrubs, but they were not so common as we expected. In the Eastern Seas|W.H.G. Kingston Now, while she stopped to pluck a flowering reed, she stood among the stems like a nymph.
British Dictionary definitions for flowering
adjective(of certain species of plants) capable of producing conspicuous flowersa flowering ash Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to floweringflourishing, abloom, florescent, inflorescent |