flowering

Pluralflowerings (some meanings)

1. 1
   adjective

   Of a plant, one that grows flowers.

   Many flowering shrubs attract bees in early summer.

   She planted a flowering vine along the back fence.

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of flower. Use this form for something happening right now.

   The cherry trees are flowering earlier this year.

   By April the meadow was flowering in bright color.

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3. 3
   adjective

   In bloom and covered with open flowers right now.

   By late spring the whole valley was flowering.

   The cactus is flowering for the first time in years.

   Similarblooming

4. 4
   noununcountable

   The time when a plant has open flowers.

   The flowering of the apple trees lasts only two weeks.

   Cold weather can delay the flowering of many crops.

   Similarblooming, blossoming, bloom, blossom

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5. 5
   nounfigurativelycountable

   The time when a person or thing is at its best.

   Like a plant when it is fully in bloom, but used for a person or idea.

   The 1960s saw the flowering of that whole music scene.

   Her writing reached its flowering in her later years.

   Similarheyday, peak, blossoming, flourishing, zenith

   Oppositedecline

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