1. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
   - blossoming, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence 
2. A developmental process
   "the flowering of antebellum culture"
   - unfolding

1. Having a flower or bloom
   "a flowering plant"

1. Produce or yield flowers
   - bloom, blossom

Derived forms: flowerings

Type of: develop, development, evolution, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

Antonym: flowerless

Encyclopedia: Flower Flower, Sun, and Rain Flower, Sun and Rain: Unending Paradise

• blini
• blink
• blink away
• blink of an eye
• blinker
• blinking
• blinking chickweed
• blinks
• blintz
• blintze
• bliny
• blip
• bliss
• blissful
• blissfully
• blissfulness
• Blissus
• Blissus leucopterus
• blister
• blister beetle
• blister blight
• blister copper
• blister pack
• blister rust
• blistering