Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flowering
IPA transcription: [fl'aʊɚɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: flowering
    Meaning: having a flower or bloom; "a flowering plant"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
    Meaning: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  • Synonyms: unfolding, flowering
    Meaning: a developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum culture"
Usage examples
  • Miss Katy-did sat on the branch of a flowering azalea, in her best suit of fine green and silver, with wings of point-lace from Mother Nature's finest web.
  • She always spoke to him when she saw him there, and he replied in deep, firm accents across the gooseberry bushes, or through the tall rows of flowering peas, as the case might be.
  • Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.
  • The Clematis meets it with an exactly opposite way of growth, swinging down its great swags of many-flowered garland masses into the head of its companion, with here and there a single flowering streamer making a tiny wreath on its own account.