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ANTHESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does anthesis mean?

• ANTHESIS (noun)
The noun ANTHESIS has 1 sense:

1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Familiarity information: ANTHESIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ANTHESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

anthesis; blossoming; florescence; flowering; inflorescence; efflorescence

Hypernyms ("anthesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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