flowering

Adjective
  1. Having a flower or bloom (synset 302608165)
    "a flowering plant"
Noun
  1. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms (synset 113460743)
    is a type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
    same as: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence
  2. A developmental process (synset 113592420)
    "the flowering of antebellum culture"
    is a type of: development, evolution - a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
    same as: unfolding

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