Flowering
Flowering , adjective
(Botany) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
Collocations (3)
Flowering fern , a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
Flowering plants , plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants.
Flowering rush , a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
Flowering , noun
1.
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
2.
The act of adorning with flowers.