flowering Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
    efflorescence; blossoming; florescence; anthesis; inflorescence.
  2. noun a developmental process
    unfolding.
    • the flowering of antebellum culture
  3. verb produce or yield flowers
    blossom; flower; bloom.
    • The cherry tree bloomed
  4. adjective having a flower or bloom
    • a flowering plant

WordNet

Flow"er*ing adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
Flow"er*ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
  2. The act of adorning with flowers.

Webster 1913