flowering

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

1. having a flower or bloom

- a flowering plant

Sentences with flowering as an adjective:

- Azaleas are flowering plants.

noun

1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Similar word(s): anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence

Definition categories: process, development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

2. a developmental process

- the flowering of antebellum culture

Similar word(s): unfolding

Definition categories: process, development, evolution

verb

1. present participle of flower