Definition of flowering in English:

flowering

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adjective

1(of a plant) in bloom.
‘a basket of flowering plants’
- ‘The gardens are magnificent, overflowing with tropical blooms and huge flowering trees.’
- ‘Prune flowering trees in spring, after blooming, to correct unsightly problems.’
- ‘Herbivorous reptiles the size of rhinos were hunted through forests of tree ferns and flowering trees by saber-toothed predators.’
- ‘There are many varieties of flowering shrubs and trees and walking paths around the lake.’
- ‘There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.’
- ‘Dozens of unkempt flowering bushes sprawled everywhere, unattended for as long as I could remember.’
- ‘Behind the house is a border like a theatre set, its foreground dashed with red, yellow and blue of flowering bushes against a backdrop of a hundred greens.’
- ‘It was tracked down at last and turned out to be a female, who on the last morning paid a visit to the flowering bushes beneath the balcony.’
- ‘Jim sat down under a flowering tree in a patch of tiny white blossoms and faced the shimmering waters of the river.’
- ‘The lawned front garden has a cobblelock driveway and a multitude of flowering shrubs.’
- ‘Males will defend feeding areas around flowering trees.’
- ‘If one gets away from the avenues and visits the largest city park called Leisure Valley, it has an Arcadian beauty of clusters of flowering trees.’
- ‘We're on a misty riverbank, with lush, flowering trees and towering storybook castles in the background.’
- ‘The dawn service was always an occasion of soft dignity, with prayers and singing beneath the flowering trees.’
- ‘Finishing the last window, she peered through it to watch the red gleam of the sun glance over the flowering trees.’
- ‘A new leaf forms on the adaxial side of a pre-existing leaf and also on the abaxial side of a leaf on flowering shoots.’
- ‘The results of analysis of variance in numbers of ovules and pollen grains with position along the flowering shoot are shown in Table 2.’
- ‘However, unprotected plants were smaller and had fewer flowering heads.’
- ‘Flower buds develop in leaf nodes in the upper part of the flowering shoot.’
- ‘For each plant, we recorded the number of vegetative and flowering shoots.’
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1. 1.1Capable of producing flowers, especially in contrast to a similar plant with the flowers inconspicuous or absent.
  ‘flowering dogwood’
  ‘An additional factor that could be incorporated into flowering models is plant variability.’
  ‘We received a warm welcome, including a cup of refreshing drink made from a flowering herbal plant locally known as ‘Roselle’.’
  ‘A few species were not collected because of their scarcity on the site or lack of flowering or fruiting individuals.’
  ‘Is it a garden for all seasons with the right balance of flowering perennials and deciduous plants with evergreens to give interest in winter?’
  ‘Remember that fruit trees are beautiful flowering trees as well.’
  ‘There is nothing more beautiful than a flowering shrub in full bloom, except maybe a flowering shrub in full bloom that has been trained to grow as a single stem tree.’
  ‘I supplement them with annuals, biennials, vines, bulbs, and a few flowering shrubs.’
  ‘A Christmas cactus is also a good idea and is a flowering cactus that generally blooms around Christmas time, although it can bloom at any time of year.’
  ‘The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers.’
  ‘Many flowering trees are susceptible to fireblight, a bacterial disease that can be spread by pruning.’
  ‘Sea grasses are flowering underwater plants that need sunlight to survive and thus are found in relatively clear, shallow waters.’
  ‘This garden has a variety of flowering trees and plants.’
  ‘The flowering shrubs will be planted in areas where there is enough sunlight and in shady areas foliage will be planted.’
  ‘They see only the lovely little pool with the ferns and the flowering tree and the rainbows in the mist.’
  ‘A curved, paved area links the lawn to a colourful flowering herb garden, one of only two on the island.’
  ‘By far the most damaging is the rhododendron, a flowering shrub introduced into gardens in the 18th century from southern Europe.’
  ‘The 220 square metre property is five years old and is located in a secluded cul-de-sac dotted with mature flowering trees and shrubs.’
  ‘People have started investing too much of their creativity and cool in how textured their feature wall is, or how many kinds of flowering grass line their paved entertaining area.’
  ‘She easily made the climb only to find herself in the loveliest meadow of flowering grass species she'd ever seen.’
  ‘That evening, I lay hidden in a stand of flowering bushes, watching the passersby.’
2. 1.2in combination Producing flowers at a specified time or of a specified type.
  ‘winter-flowering heathers’

Pronunciation

flowering

/ˈflou(ə)riNG/ /ˈflaʊ(ə)rɪŋ/

noun

1The action of producing flowers.
- ‘the clematis can be grown to coincide with the flowering of the roses’
2The attainment of an optimum stage of development.
- ‘the flowering of Viennese intellectual life’