FLOWERING
Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering mean?
• FLOWERING (noun)
The noun FLOWERING has 2 senses:
1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
2. a developmental process
Familiarity information: FLOWERING used as a noun is rare.
• FLOWERING (adjective)
The adjective FLOWERING has 1 sense:
1. having a flower or bloom
Familiarity information: FLOWERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOWERING (noun)
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 ("flowering" 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)
Meaning:
A developmental process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
unfolding; flowering
Context example:
the flowering of antebellum culture
Hypernyms ("flowering" is a kind of...):
development; evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage))
• FLOWERING (adjective)
Meaning:
Having a flower or bloom
Context example:
a flowering plant
Similar:
lily-like; lilylike (having a flower that resembles a lily)
orchid-like; orchidlike (having a flower that resembles an orchid)
rose-like; roselike (having a flower that resembles a rose)
Antonym:
flowerless (without flower or bloom and not producing seeds)
