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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
Robert Fortune

Meaning of "flowering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOWERING

flowering  [ˈflaʊərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOWERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flowering is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FLOWERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flowering

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing or allow selfing. Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization. Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop. Flowers give rise to fruit and seeds. Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen. In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.

Definition of flowering in the English dictionary

The definition of flowering in the dictionary is capable of producing conspicuous flowers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOWERING


alluring
əˈljʊərɪŋ
curing
ˈkjʊərɪŋ
devouring
dɪˈvaʊərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
empowering
ɪmˈpaʊərɪŋ
enduring
ɪnˈdjʊərɪŋ
glowering
ˈɡlaʊərɪŋ
louring
ˈlaʊərɪŋ
lowering
ˈlaʊərɪŋ
mooring
ˈmʊərɪŋ
nonflowering
ˌnɒnˈflaʊərɪŋ
overpowering
ˌəʊvəˈpaʊərɪŋ
procuring
prəˈkjʊərɪŋ
reassuring
ˌriːəˈʃʊərɪŋ
reflowering
riːˈflaʊərɪŋ
scouring
ˈskaʊərɪŋ
touring
ˈtʊərɪŋ
towering
ˈtaʊərɪŋ
Turing
ˈtjʊərɪŋ
unrecuring
ˌʌnrɪˈkjʊərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOWERING

flowerage
flowerbed
flowered
flowerer
floweret
flowerette
flowerful
flowerhorn fish
flowerily
floweriness
flowering ash
flowering currant
flowering maple
flowering quince
flowering shrub
flowerless
flowerpot
flowers of sulphur
flowers of zinc
flowers-de-luce

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOWERING

bring
catering
civil engineering
considering
covering
electrical engineering
engineering
fingering
gathering
hovering
lettering
mechanical engineering
offering
ordering
recovering
rendering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of flowering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FLOWERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flowering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of flowering

Translation of «flowering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOWERING

Find out the translation of flowering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flowering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flowering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 盛行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

florecimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

flowering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फूल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المزهرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цветения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

florescimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুষ্পোদ্গম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épanouissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berbunga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blüte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

開花
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngembang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பூக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फुलांच्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çiçekli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fioritura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kwitnienia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цвітіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înflorire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανθοφορίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blomning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blomstring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flowering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOWERING»

The term «flowering» is very widely used and occupies the 20.169 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flowering

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10 QUOTES WITH «FLOWERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flowering.
1
Joseph Campbell
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
2
Homaro Cantu
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.
3
Michael Dickinson
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
4
Black Elk
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
5
Robert Fortune
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
6
Jiddu Krishnamurti
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
7
Steve Lacy
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
8
Lykke Li
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
9
Lynn Margulis
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
10
John C. McGinley
Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOWERING»

Discover the use of flowering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flowering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India: A.K. ...
This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time.
A. K. Ramanujan, Stuart H. Blackburn, Alan Dundes, 1997
2
100 Families of Flowering Plants
This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. The text of each of the 100 plant families described is in two parts.
Michael Hickey, Clive King, 1988
3
Flowering Plants
Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants.
Armen Takhtajan, 2009
4
英文版風姿花伝: The Flowering Spirit
It is accompanied by an introduction and a translation of one of Zeami's most celebrated No plays, 'Atsumori'. This is a new translation of 'Fushikaden', the fifteenth-century classic text by Zeami, founder of the No theatre.
Zeami, 2006
5
Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese ...
For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.
Marsha Smith Weidner, 1990
6
Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and ...
When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series, Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had interested him for a long time.
Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber, 1998
7
A Guide to Families of Common Flowering Plants in the ...
This book is an introduction to the science of plant classification and identification, or plant taxonomy.
Irma Remo Castro, 2006
8
A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns
Key to the families of flowering plants. System of bentham and hooker. Table of family equivalents. Index to orders and groups of higher rank.
John Christopher Willis, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, 1973
9
Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and ...
This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide.
‎2003
10
Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in ...
This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.
Leo Ou-fan Lee, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOWERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flowering is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Flowering of Our Consciousness - The New Indian Express
The Flowering of Our Consciousness. By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Published: 11th July 2015 10:00 PM. Last Updated: 11th July 2015 11:36 AM. First name. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
2
Your Noon Briefing: Endell Laird, 'Flowering' of new Scots websites …
Endell Laird, a former editor-in-chief of the Daily Record and sister title, the Sunday Mail, has died. He was aged 81. His death is reported on ... «allmediascotland.com, Jul 15»
3
74 years of flowering magic
74 years of flowering magic. 20 hrs ago; 0. Flowers. Grizzly file photo. Colorful flowers are the focus at the 74th annual Woman's Club of Big ... «Big Bear Grizzly, Jul 15»
4
Explore the climbing, flowering world of clematis this weekend
DEBBIE FISCHER, OWNER of Silver Star Vinery, stands near one of the many flowering clematis at her nursery, located in Yacolt's Dole Valley. «The Reflector, Jul 15»
5
Cool mornings and warm days provide good weather for flowering
Mango trees are coming into flower across the Katherine region in the Northern Territory, with cool mornings and warm days helping the trees ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
6
Kyoto's flowering backstreets are blooming good
Kyoto's famous array of back alleys are more interesting than your regular botanical garden, trumpets a new book. Unlike most other Japanese ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»
7
Emmerdale's Dominic Brunt on overcoming shyness: 'Acting was a …
"It was a flowering for me. Meeting new people drew me out of myself." Paddy's life will be left hanging in the balance in Emmerdale next week ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
8
Flowering Raspberry
The fruits on flowering raspberries are small and insipid, but the flowers are large and a gorgeous purple color. Maybe you've seen them along ... «Hornell Evening Tribune, Jun 15»
9
Live monitoring of mycotoxin risk in wheat crops during flowering
Extruded anthers during flowering are thought to be the site of primary infection. High rainfall at flowering increases fusarium infection risk and ... «New Food, Jun 15»
10
Is a Late-Flowering Venus Williams Primed to Beat her Sister at …
Nearly every player who came in this weekend for pre-tournament media obligations at Wimbledon was asked about Serena Williams, and her ... «NDTVSports.com, Jun 15»

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