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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescencenoun

    the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

  2. unfolding, floweringadjective

    a developmental process

    "the flowering of antebellum culture"

  3. floweringadjective

    having a flower or bloom

    "a flowering plant"

Wiktionary

  1. floweringnoun

    The action of the verb to flower.

  2. floweringnoun

    Blooming

  3. floweringadjective

    (used only before the noun) Of a plant, that produces flowers.

    Azaleas are flowering plants.

  4. floweringadjective

    Having flowers that are opening.

    The apple trees are flowering.

Wikipedia

  1. flowering

    A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) resulting from cross-pollination or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower) when self-pollination occurs. There are two types of pollination: self-pollination and cross-pollination. Self-pollination occurs when the pollen from the anther is deposited on the stigma of the same flower, or another flower on the same plant. Cross-pollination is when pollen is transferred from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another flower on a different individual of the same species. Self-pollination happens in flowers where the stamen and carpel mature at the same time, and are positioned so that the pollen can land on the flower's stigma. This pollination does not require an investment from the plant to provide nectar and pollen as food for pollinators.Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy). Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop. Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen. After fertilization, the ovary of the flower develops into fruit containing seeds. In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to bring beauty to the environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, esotericism, witchcraft, religion, holistic medicine, and as a source of food.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flowering

    of Flower

  2. Floweringadjective

    having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc

  3. Floweringnoun

    the act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification

  4. Floweringnoun

    the act of adorning with flowers

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. flowering

    The phenomenon observed usually in connection with the spawning of fish, at the distance of four leagues from shore. The water appears to be saturated with a thick jelly, filled with the ova of fish, which is known by its adhering to the ropes that the cobles anchor with while fishing, for they find the first six or seven fathom of rope free from spawn, the next ten or twelve covered with slimy matter, and the remainder again free to the bottom; this gelatinous material may supply the new-born fry with food, and protect them by clouding the water.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flowering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flowering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of flowering in a Sentence

  1. German Heinzenknecht:

    Nerves are getting frayed. The weather is complicated and so is the political climate, the situation is difficult because of two factors: the flowering of wheat plants and corn planting. If it does not rain by Oct. 15, it's going to get bad. So, on top of the political situation, everybody will be talking about the weather.

  2. Mickey Mehta:

    Every human is a God in seed form waiting for it's flowering, but not letting it blossom impeded by his own ego, he remains earthly. So annihilate your ego and evolve to divinity MickeyMizing your life. Share this for conversion of angels from humans and let us all know only bliss :)

  3. Amit Ray:

    A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.

  4. John Steinbeck:

    A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

  5. Robert Spicer:

    Here we have preserved in amber all the details of one such early flower just at the time when flowering plants begin to spread across the globe, and it shows superb adaptation to seasonally dry environments that supports vegetation exposed to frequent wildfires.

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