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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.

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  1. flowering

    Flowering refers to the process by which a plant or vegetation produces and displays its blooms or flowers, typically as a stage in its reproductive cycle. It involves the transformation of buds into blossoms, which may further develop into fruits or seeds. The time or season of flowering varies among different species.

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. 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.

  2. Mukti Sardjono:

    The El Nino will not affect this year's production, but next year's harvest which is currently flowering, this year's production is estimated to be higher than 2018, though the (annual) increase will not as big as in 2018.

  3. Robert Spicer:

    Flowering plants reproduce more quickly than other plants, have more complex breeding mechanisms -- a wide variety of flower forms, for example, often in close' collaboration' with pollinators. This drives mutual coevolution of many lineages of plants and animals, shaping ecosystems.

  4. Gioia Massa:

    While the plants have n’t grown perfectly, i think we have gained a lot from this, and we are learning both more about plants and fluids and also how better to operate between ground and station. Regardless of final flowering outcome we will have gained a lot.

  5. 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.

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