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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flower \Flow"er\ (flou"[~e]r), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flowered} (flou"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowering}.] [From the noun. Cf. {Flourish}.]
1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.
Their lusty and flowering age. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
When flowered my youthful spring. --Spenser.
3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
That beer did flower a little. --Bacon.
4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]
Observations which have flowered off. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, adjective (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, noun
1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
2. The act of adorning with flowers.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flowering
adjective: bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn: {abloom}, {efflorescent}]
noun
1: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: {blossoming}, {florescence}, {inflorescence}, {anthesis}, {efflorescence}]
2: a developmental process; "the flowering of ante-bellum culture" [syn: {unfolding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowering": accomplishment, advance, advancement, amplification, anthesis, balmy, bloom, blooming, bloomy, blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, booming, budding, burgeoning, clear, crescent, developed, development, developmental change, efflorescence, efflorescent, elaboration, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, explication, exuberant, fair, fat, floral, floreate, florescence, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flourishing, flowerage, flowered, flowery, fruiting, full bloom, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, furtherance, garden, going strong, gradual change, growing, grown, grown-up, growth, halcyon, horticultural, hortulan, hypertrophied, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, in full swing, in good case, inflorescent, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, maturation, mature, multiflorous, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, overdeveloped, overgrown, palmy, piping, progress, progression, prospering, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, ripening, rise, rosy, sleek, sprouting, thriving, unfolding, unfoldment, uniflorous, upgrowth, vigorous, young, youngling, youthful, youthlike, youthy
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