Crossword clues for flowering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowered (flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.]
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
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To come into the finest or fairest condition.
Their lusty and flowering age.
--Robynson (More's Utopia).When flowered my youthful spring.
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To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
That beer did flower a little.
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To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]
Observations which have flowered off.
--Milton.
Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns ( Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants.
Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant ( Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, n.
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
The act of adorning with flowers.
Wiktionary
(''used only before the noun'') Of a plant, that produces flowers. n. 1 The action of the verb to flower. 2 blooming v
(present participle of flower English)
WordNet
adj. bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn: abloom, efflorescent]
n. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence]
a developmental process; "the flowering of ante-bellum culture" [syn: unfolding]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "flowering".
Then, if Acorus were to be chosen to host the master scepter, there would be more music, and plays, and a greater flowering of art and innovation.
Orchis and Asclepias,--genera almost as remote as possible amongst flowering plants.
Amongst other Asters it shows to advantage, flowering earlier than most of them, but lasting well into their period of bloom.
Renaissance, sharpened and intensified as it has been by its double maxima of climate and science, is able to force a response comparable to that of the Aurignacian Renaissance of twenty-five thousand BC, to wit, the flowering of the Cro-Magnon, the first of the modern men.
They crossed the foyer, threading their way between the flowering plants, glass tables and Bauhaus chairs.
Slogging along over rocky hills and sparse bunchgrass, she managed to dodge yellow flowering sagebrush and still search the cloud formations overhead for kittens and ghosts.
Although it was fall in the land I came from, Miller Damon was lush with blooming vines and flowering cactuses and ivies with shiny leaves that climbed the sandstone-colored bricks of the low buildings with their terra-cotta roofs.
They were, perhaps, the final flowering of all this history: not a turning point, as he had thought, or a watershed, but rather the final roar of an avalanche that had started slowly, thousands of years before, in the slow settling of layer upon layer of coldheartedness and cruelty onto the high ground of the nature of Man.
The mountains through which it forces its way on the other side are precipitous and wooded to their summits with coniferae, while the less abrupt side, along which the tract is carried, curves into green knolls in its lower slopes, sprinkled with grand Spanish chestnuts scarcely yet in blossom, with maples which have not yet lost the scarlet which they wear in spring as well as autumn, and with many flowering trees and shrubs which are new to me, and with an undergrowth of red azaleas, syringa, blue hydrangea--the very blue of heaven--yellow raspberries, ferns, clematis, white and yellow lilies, blue irises, and fifty other trees and shrubs entangled and festooned by the wistaria, whose beautiful foliage is as common as is that of the bramble with us.
But since the rediscovery of the gene, in 1900, and the flowering of the technology based on it, Darwinism has triumphed.
There was an increase, albeit gradual, in flowering plants after the mysterious mid-Cretaceous extinction event, suggesting to some paleontologists that some dinosaurs ill-equipped to dine on this new food went extinct, to be replaced by duckbilled dinosaurs.
Farther on, both banks were tree-lined, and, as well as the spears of the yellow iris, by this time long past flowering, knotted figwort was growing beside the water.
Three weeks later we heard and saw another detachment of the buried army coming out into the sun among the pines and the flowering fremontias of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Flowering grasses and reeds fringed the banks, the golden blossoms of a native grevillea flourishing in the rocky terrain of the opposite bank.
It was a nice ride, though, for the birds were in full warbling splendor, and flowering horsemint poked up from piles of slate.