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Flowering

[flou-er-ing]

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; see flower, -ing²

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non·flow·er·ing, adjective

pre·flow·er·ing, adjective

un·flow·er·ing, adjective

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noun

the blossom of a plant.

Botany.

the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, especially when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color.

an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.

a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.

state of efflorescence or bloom: Peonies were in flower.

an ornament representing a flower.

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Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, especially a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.

an ornament or adornment.

the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England.

the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American youth.

10.

the finest or choicest product or example.

11.

flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, especially as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.

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verb (used without object)

12.

to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.

13.

to come out into full development; mature.

verb (used with object)

14.

to cover or deck with flowers.

15.

to decorate with a floral design.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English flour flower, best of anything < Old French flor, flour, flur < Latin flōr- (stem of flōs). Compare blossom

Related forms

re·flow·er, verb

Can be confused: flour, flower.

Synonyms
13. develop, flourish, bloom, blossom, ripen.

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flowering (ˈflaʊərɪŋ)

—*adj*
	(of certain species of plants) capable of producing conspicuous flowers: a flowering ash

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Word Origin & History

flower

c.1200, from O.Fr. flor, from L. florem (nom. flos) "flower" (see flora), from PIE base *bhlo- "to blossom, flourish" (cf. M.Ir. blath, Welsh blawd "blossom, flower," O.E. blowan "to flower, bloom"). Modern spelling is 14c. Ousted O.E. cognate blostm (see

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blossom). Also used from 13c. in sense of "finest part or product of anything." The verb is first recorded early 13c. Related: Flowered; flowering. Flower children "gentle hippies" is from 1967.

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flower

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The reproductive structure of the seed-bearing plants known as angiosperms. A flower may contain up to four whorls or arrangements of parts: carpels, stamens, petals, and sepals. The female reproductive organs consist of one or more carpels. Each carpel includes an ovary, style, and stigma. A single carpel or a group of fused carpels is sometimes called a pistil. The male reproductive parts are the stamens, made up of a filament and anther. The reproductive organs may be enclosed in an inner whorl of petals and an outer whorl of sepals. flowers first appeared over 120 million years ago and have evolved a great diversity of forms and coloration in response to the agents that pollinate them. Some flowers produce nectar to attract animal pollinators, and these flowers are often highly adapted to specific groups of pollinators. Flowers pollinated by moths, such as species of jasmine and nicotiana, are often pale and fragrant in order to be found in the evening, while those pollinated by birds, such as fuschias, are frequently red and odorless, since birds have good vision but a less developed sense of smell. Wind-pollinated flowers, such as those of oak trees or grass, are usually drab and inconspicuous. See Note at pollination.

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Cultural Dictionary

flower definition

The part of a plant that produces the seed. It usually contains petals, a pistil, and pollen-bearing stamens.

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"As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. The flowers looking in from the walled garden through my window do not, it is true, see me. But their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. They take it, as it forever spills away radiant into space in a golden waste, to a primal purpose. They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements. They breathe upon the dust, and it is a rose. Say that this is done with neither thought nor passion, and by something other than will. True that a plant may not think; neither will the profoundest of men ever put forth a flower. Of the use and the beauty of flowering there can be no shade of doubt. It is a rare thought of which as much can be said."

-Donald Culross Peattie

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