Flowering
['flaʊərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flower
(a.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
(n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
(n.) The act of adorning with flowers.
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Examples
- Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But there existed as yet no grass, no small flowering plants, no turf nor greensward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when transported from one climate to another. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Those who did that are the last flowering of what their education has produced. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It doesn't allow any possibility of flowering. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- More than half of the flowering plants are native, and the species of the different isla nds show wonderful differences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The heath was covered with golden patches of flowering gorse, gleaming magnificently in the light of the bright spring sunshine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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