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flowering

[flou-er-ing]

adjective

  1. bearing flowers.



flowering

/ ˈڱʊəɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of certain species of plants) capable of producing conspicuous flowers

    a 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
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Other Word Forms

  • nonflowering adjective
  • preflowering adjective
  • unflowering adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flowering1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; flower, -ing 2
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"Nice to see you again, glad you got the roses," Queen Camilla seemed to be saying about this flowering relationship.

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The recommendations below are grouped by color and their prime flowering season.

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But in the right context, it can be heard as though a brilliant flowering of Debussy’s colors and flavors.

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"The productivity has gone down. The trees are not flowering and fruiting the way they used to. Rain fluctuation has disrupted the shea tree's natural cycles," he said.

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Miranda July’s book ‘All Fours,’ about a Los Angeles woman’s reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.

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