Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. [1913 Webster]

Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

flowering, n.

The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. [1913 Webster]
The act of adorning with flowers. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

flowering, adj. (of a plant) capable of producing flowers.

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THESAURUS

flowering

accomplishment, advance, advancement, amplification, anthesis, balmy, bloom, blooming, bloomy, blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, booming, budding, burgeoning, clear, crescent, developed, development, developmental change, efflorescence, efflorescent, elaboration, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, explication, exuberant, fair, fat, floral, floreate, florescence, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flourishing, flowerage, flowered, flowery, fruiting, full bloom, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, furtherance, garden, going strong, gradual change, growing, grown, grown-up, growth, halcyon, horticultural, hortulan, hypertrophied, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, in full swing, in good case, inflorescent, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, maturation, mature, multiflorous, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, overdeveloped, overgrown, palmy, piping, progress, progression, prospering, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, ripening, rise, rosy, sleek, sprouting, thriving, unfolding, unfoldment, uniflorous, upgrowth, vigorous, young, youngling, youthful, youthlike, youthy

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ROGET THESAURUS

flowering

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

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