Definitions for flowering

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flowering flow·er·ing

Spelling: [flou-er-ing]

IPA: /ˈflaʊ ər ɪŋ/

Flowering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in flowering (efgilnorw).

Definitions for flowering

noun

1. the blossom of a plant.
2. Botany. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, especially when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.
3. a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.
4. state of efflorescence or bloom:
5. an ornament representing a flower.
6. Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, especially a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.
7. an ornament or adornment.
8. the finest or most flourishing period:
9. the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole:
10. the finest or choicest product or example.
11. flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, especially as obtained by sublimation:

adjective

1. bearing flowers.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or deck with flowers.
2. to decorate with a floral design.

verb (used without object)

1. to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.
2. to come out into full development; mature.

Origin of flowering

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at flower, -ing²

Examples for flowering

She is a young television mogul, actress, comedy writer, and flowering feminist in the public eye.

The garden at the back was full of flowering cherries and plums.

It is of much greater value at the time of flowering than when the seed is ripe.

flowering beans and peas trailed their sprays upon the ground.

But Madame Beattie was tired, though this was the flowering of her later life.

All other nations had had their flowering time and had faded out.

Israel is a nation state like many nation states established as part of the flowering of nineteenth century European nationalism.

And now spring is upon us—surely there is another Bolaño flowering.

But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.

It was a typical suburban dwelling with a verdant lawn and lots of flowering shrubs.