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noun
The time, or the condition, of budding or flowering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: blossoming, flowering, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
History
From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“to bloom, flower”) + -ēscō, from flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bhleh3- (“flower, blossom”), from *bhel- (“to bloom”), as if through the form flōrēscentia.
Across languages
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