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UK
/flˈaʊəɹɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈfɫaʊɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫaʊɝɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a developmental process
the flowering of antebellum culture - the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
ADJECTIVE
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having a flower or bloom
a flowering plant
How To Use flowering In A Sentence
- At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood. The Education of a Gardener
- We're on a misty riverbank, with lush, flowering trees and towering storybook castles in the background.
- As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
- The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
- Enjoy this jolly, spritzy, grapey, flowering currant and passion fruit-scented rosé well chilled. Times, Sunday Times
- However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
- You could see flowering shrubs but not reach them. Times, Sunday Times
- This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
- The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
- Our nepeta is blooming too, funny how fast the flowering catches up from north to south. Bee Speed « Fairegarden