floweringn.

Etymology: < flower v. + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflowering.

1. The action of flower v. in various senses.

a. The putting forth of flowers or blossom; coming into flower, blooming.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]

growingc1380

profitingc1384

increasec1385

bettering?c1425

progress1457

advancementc1475

service1533

progression1586

increment1609

upgrowinga1618

flowering1629

rise1676

development1756

evolution1796

march1818

headway1832

upgrowth1844

upbuilding1876

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > flowering or blossoming

flourishing1303

blowingc1380

blossomingc1440

blooming1495

flourish1594

blowth1602

efflorescence1626

flowering1629

blow1744

florification1796

inflorescence1801

flowerage1841

florescence1853

floriferousness1882

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (title) Paradisi in Sole..or a choise Garden of..Flowers, with their Nature, place of Birth, time of flowring [etc.].

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xv. 273 Torfrida regretted the lengthening of the days, and the flowering of the primroses.

1882 Garden 21 Jan. 34/1 Any dwarf growing annuals would also answer for a second flowering.

figurative.1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iv. 119 She placed her whole joy in the flowering of this gifted nature.

b. The action of adorning with flowers, or with figures of flowers.

ΚΠ

1739 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (ed. 2) at Flory Fleury, Flory, Fleurty, Floretty..signify different Ways of Flowering.

1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Flowering..the act of adorning with flowers.

2. concrete or quasi-concrete.

†a. collective. Blossoms.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s)

blossom971

bledec975

blooma1400

flourishinga1400

floweringa1400

flourisha1500

blowing1578

blooming1622

pip1753

floriage1782

florescence1793

blow1797

flowerage1831

bloom-flinder1840

gosling1847–78

snow1859

fleuret1868

bloomagea1876

blossomry1901

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10726 Þis wand suld fluring bere þat suld o rote o iesse spring.

†b. Effervescence; frothiness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > effervescing drink > effervescence

flowering1626

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §312 The Spirits..become Dull, and the Drinke dead, which ought to haue a little Flouring.

†c. Efflorescence or superficial growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production

generationa1382

engenderinga1400

outbearinga1425

productionc1450

produce1562

prolation1577

procreation1578

generating1579

edition1605

producement1613

elaboration1617

flowering1634

pullulation1641

factory1664

development1794

output1841

output1887

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > condition

flowering1634

mammillation1844

development1847

dysplasia1935

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. iii. iii. 88 A certaine drie flouring, or production of the true skinne.

d. plural. Figures of flowers.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers

flowerc1230

flourishingc1384

fleuronc1385

rose1415

pansyc1450

columbine1459

lily1459

fleur-de-lis1475

heartseasea1542

honeysuckle1548

flower-work1601

floretry1615

branching1652

fleuret1811

anthemion1816

rosace1823

fleur1841

flowering1862

flowerage1864

millefleurs1908

rosette1931

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. vii. 239 His dressing-gown, a grand yellow silky article with silver flowerings.

e. (See quot. 1867.)

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flowering, the phenomenon observed usually in connection with the spawning of fish, at the distance of four leagues from shore. The water appears to be saturated with a thick jelly, filled with the ova of fish.

3. attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > of season

flowering1377

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 31 Þe flesshe is a fel wynde, and in flourynge-tyme Þorw lykyng and lustes so loude he gynneth blowe.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 300 Primula scotica..has three flowering seasons.

1878 O. W. Holmes John Lothrop Motley: Mem. i. 5 The..flowering-time of authorship.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

floweringadj.

/ˈflaʊərɪŋ/

Etymology: < flower v. + -ing suffix².

That flowers, in various senses.

a. That is in bloom.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom

blownc1000

full-blown1576

flowering1592

in beauty1629

flowered1633

in bloom1645

new-blown1656

blooming1664

blowing1667

in flower1697

in (their) flowers1697

abloom1729

blow1744

aflower1869

1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 143 Worldly triumphs are like to flowering gras.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 Mark well the flowring Almonds in the Wood.

b. that bears flowers or blossoms.

ΚΠ

1745 R. Pococke Descr. East (1889) II. 141 Clumps of evergreen and flowering plants.

1818 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. xi. 30 The luxury of that fresh, growing, perfume, a flowering shrub in full bloom.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. v. 53 Each flower [of Wheat] is enclosed between a flowering-glume and a pale.

1877 ‘Rita’ Vivienne I. i. 2 A broad white road..bordered..by flowering chestnuts.

c. Often in plant-names; as flowering ash, flowering box, flowering currant, flowering fern, etc. (see the nouns). flowering moss n. U.S. (a) the creeping evergreen plant, Pyxidanthera barbulata; (b) = 2; (c) Sedum pulchellum (Britton & Brown Flora 1896–8). flowering raspberry n. the American species Rubus odoratus. flowering rush n. the Eurasian aquatic plant Butomus umbellatus (family Butomaceae), with sword-shaped leaves and cluters of pink flowers.

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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 27 Water Gladiole is called of L'Obelius, Iuncus Cyperoides floridus paludosus, Flowring Cypresse Rush.]

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 75 Flowring Rush. Not esteemed for their flowers.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Butomus, the Flowering Rush or Water Gladiole.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rush, Lesser flowering, Scheuchzeria.

1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. Butomus umbellatus, the flowering rush, is considered the handsomest herbaceous plant of the British flora.

1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxvi. 329 The more characteristic forms of the Sedge- and Reed-zones are the Iris, Flowering Rush (Butomus), Bur-reed (Sparganium), Water Plantain (Alisma plantago), [etc.].

1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. iv. 195 Then there'd be..yellow water lilies and ‘hen-and-chickens’, the pretty pink clusters of flowering rush.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 382/1 Flowering-rush, Butomus umbellatus , is a tall and handsome plant of ditches, fens, reedbeds, the edges of slow-moving rivers, even moats.

†2. Flourishing, vigorous; that is in one's bloom or prime. flowering age, flowering life, flowering youth: the bloom or prime of age, life, or youth. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun]

flowering agec1400

pridec1475

blooming-time1495

flower?1507

season?1507

day1546

flourishing years?1555

golden years1559

vigour1563

consistent age1574

prime1574

May moon1576

acme1579

Maya1586

flourish1597

May month1600

consistencea1613

May morna1616

constant age1620

high daya1625

blouth1643

flourishing age1737

heyday1751

floruit1843

bloom-hour1850

blossom-time1860

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [adjective]

floweringc1400

in youth's flowers?1507

primy1604

consisting1623

in the flower of one's age1647

seasonable1883

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun]

youthc897

youngheada1300

youngthc1330

juvent1377

juventy1377

first youtha1387

youthheada1400

joyfnesc1400

junessec1430

young daysa1464

juventudec1470

younga1475

youngness?1505

flower?1507

juventute1541

prime tide1549

spring1553

April1583

springtime1583

nonage1584

prime1584

flowering youth1586

primrose1590

greenc1595

dancing-days1599

primrose-time1606

leaping timea1616

salad daysa1616

minority1632

juvenency1656

coltagec1720

youdith1723

veal-bones1785

whelphood1847

colthood1865

c1400 Rom. Rose 6259 The gode thought and the worching, That maketh religioun flowring.

a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 1 A glad spirit maket a flowryng age.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. V.ij^v The bodies twayne Of Almon, flouring lad, and good Galesus fouly slayne.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. x. 41 The one was in her flowring age, the other too too olde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 56 That cause..that..hath detayn'd me all my flowring Youth, Within a loathsome Dungeon.

3. Covered with or abounding in flowers or figures of flowers; = flowery adj. Also, pertaining to or issuing from flowers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom

blossomedc1374

blossomyc1374

flowereda1375

floweryc1374

flourishingc1400

blossoming1430

bloomed1508

blooming1587

florulent1592

bloomy?1606

floweringa1616

florid1656

floriferous1656

flosculous1656

florent1719

posied1731

emblossomed1766

phaenogamous1805

phaenogamic1808

phanerogamous1816

florescent1821

phaenogamian1828

phanerogamic1830

ablow1838

flowerful1848

floreal1852

floreted1856

blossom-laden1867

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 228 The Snake, roll'd in a flowring Banke.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B6 This floting flouring changeable array.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 293 Groves of Myrrhe, And flouring Odours.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 91 A flowering Garden, trimm'd for a lord's delight.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	flowering
释义	floweringn. Etymology: < flower v. + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflowering. 1. The action of flower v. in various senses. a. The putting forth of flowers or blossom; coming into flower, blooming. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] growingc1380 profitingc1384 increasec1385 bettering?c1425 progress1457 advancementc1475 service1533 progression1586 increment1609 upgrowinga1618 flowering1629 rise1676 development1756 evolution1796 march1818 headway1832 upgrowth1844 upbuilding1876 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > flowering or blossoming flourishing1303 blowingc1380 blossomingc1440 blooming1495 flourish1594 blowth1602 efflorescence1626 flowering1629 blow1744 florification1796 inflorescence1801 flowerage1841 florescence1853 floriferousness1882 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (title) Paradisi in Sole..or a choise Garden of..Flowers, with their Nature, place of Birth, time of flowring [etc.]. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xv. 273 Torfrida regretted the lengthening of the days, and the flowering of the primroses. 1882 Garden 21 Jan. 34/1 Any dwarf growing annuals would also answer for a second flowering. figurative.1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iv. 119 She placed her whole joy in the flowering of this gifted nature. b. The action of adorning with flowers, or with figures of flowers. ΚΠ 1739 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (ed. 2) at Flory Fleury, Flory, Fleurty, Floretty..signify different Ways of Flowering. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Flowering..the act of adorning with flowers. 2. concrete or quasi-concrete. †a. collective. Blossoms. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s) blossom971 bledec975 blooma1400 flourishinga1400 floweringa1400 flourisha1500 blowing1578 blooming1622 pip1753 floriage1782 florescence1793 blow1797 flowerage1831 bloom-flinder1840 gosling1847–78 snow1859 fleuret1868 bloomagea1876 blossomry1901 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10726 Þis wand suld fluring bere þat suld o rote o iesse spring. †b. Effervescence; frothiness. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > effervescing drink > effervescence flowering1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §312 The Spirits..become Dull, and the Drinke dead, which ought to haue a little Flouring. †c. Efflorescence or superficial growth. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production generationa1382 engenderinga1400 outbearinga1425 productionc1450 produce1562 prolation1577 procreation1578 generating1579 edition1605 producement1613 elaboration1617 flowering1634 pullulation1641 factory1664 development1794 output1841 output1887 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > condition flowering1634 mammillation1844 development1847 dysplasia1935 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. iii. iii. 88 A certaine drie flouring, or production of the true skinne. d. plural. Figures of flowers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers flowerc1230 flourishingc1384 fleuronc1385 rose1415 pansyc1450 columbine1459 lily1459 fleur-de-lis1475 heartseasea1542 honeysuckle1548 flower-work1601 floretry1615 branching1652 fleuret1811 anthemion1816 rosace1823 fleur1841 flowering1862 flowerage1864 millefleurs1908 rosette1931 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. vii. 239 His dressing-gown, a grand yellow silky article with silver flowerings. e. (See quot. 1867.) ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flowering, the phenomenon observed usually in connection with the spawning of fish, at the distance of four leagues from shore. The water appears to be saturated with a thick jelly, filled with the ova of fish. 3. attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > of season flowering1377 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 31 Þe flesshe is a fel wynde, and in flourynge-tyme Þorw lykyng and lustes so loude he gynneth blowe. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 300 Primula scotica..has three flowering seasons. 1878 O. W. Holmes John Lothrop Motley: Mem. i. 5 The..flowering-time of authorship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2020). floweringadj. /ˈflaʊərɪŋ/ Etymology: < flower v. + -ing suffix². That flowers, in various senses. 1. a. That is in bloom. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom blownc1000 full-blown1576 flowering1592 in beauty1629 flowered1633 in bloom1645 new-blown1656 blooming1664 blowing1667 in flower1697 in (their) flowers1697 abloom1729 blow1744 aflower1869 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 143 Worldly triumphs are like to flowering gras. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 Mark well the flowring Almonds in the Wood. View more context for this quotation b. that bears flowers or blossoms. ΚΠ 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East (1889) II. 141 Clumps of evergreen and flowering plants. 1818 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. xi. 30 The luxury of that fresh, growing, perfume, a flowering shrub in full bloom. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. v. 53 Each flower [of Wheat] is enclosed between a flowering-glume and a pale. 1877 ‘Rita’ Vivienne I. i. 2 A broad white road..bordered..by flowering chestnuts. c. Often in plant-names; as flowering ash, flowering box, flowering currant, flowering fern, etc. (see the nouns). flowering moss n. U.S. (a) the creeping evergreen plant, Pyxidanthera barbulata; (b) = 2; (c) Sedum pulchellum (Britton & Brown Flora 1896–8). flowering raspberry n. the American species Rubus odoratus. flowering rush n. the Eurasian aquatic plant Butomus umbellatus (family Butomaceae), with sword-shaped leaves and cluters of pink flowers. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 27 Water Gladiole is called of L'Obelius, Iuncus Cyperoides floridus paludosus, Flowring Cypresse Rush.] 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 75 Flowring Rush. Not esteemed for their flowers. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Butomus, the Flowering Rush or Water Gladiole. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rush, Lesser flowering, Scheuchzeria. 1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. Butomus umbellatus, the flowering rush, is considered the handsomest herbaceous plant of the British flora. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxvi. 329 The more characteristic forms of the Sedge- and Reed-zones are the Iris, Flowering Rush (Butomus), Bur-reed (Sparganium), Water Plantain (Alisma plantago), [etc.]. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. iv. 195 Then there'd be..yellow water lilies and ‘hen-and-chickens’, the pretty pink clusters of flowering rush. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 382/1 Flowering-rush, Butomus umbellatus , is a tall and handsome plant of ditches, fens, reedbeds, the edges of slow-moving rivers, even moats. †2. Flourishing, vigorous; that is in one's bloom or prime. flowering age, flowering life, flowering youth: the bloom or prime of age, life, or youth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun] flowering agec1400 pridec1475 blooming-time1495 flower?1507 season?1507 day1546 flourishing years?1555 golden years1559 vigour1563 consistent age1574 prime1574 May moon1576 acme1579 Maya1586 flourish1597 May month1600 consistencea1613 May morna1616 constant age1620 high daya1625 blouth1643 flourishing age1737 heyday1751 floruit1843 bloom-hour1850 blossom-time1860 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [adjective] floweringc1400 in youth's flowers?1507 primy1604 consisting1623 in the flower of one's age1647 seasonable1883 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] youthc897 youngheada1300 youngthc1330 juvent1377 juventy1377 first youtha1387 youthheada1400 joyfnesc1400 junessec1430 young daysa1464 juventudec1470 younga1475 youngness?1505 flower?1507 juventute1541 prime tide1549 spring1553 April1583 springtime1583 nonage1584 prime1584 flowering youth1586 primrose1590 greenc1595 dancing-days1599 primrose-time1606 leaping timea1616 salad daysa1616 minority1632 juvenency1656 coltagec1720 youdith1723 veal-bones1785 whelphood1847 colthood1865 c1400 Rom. Rose 6259 The gode thought and the worching, That maketh religioun flowring. a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 1 A glad spirit maket a flowryng age. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. V.ij^v The bodies twayne Of Almon, flouring lad, and good Galesus fouly slayne. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. x. 41 The one was in her flowring age, the other too too olde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 56 That cause..that..hath detayn'd me all my flowring Youth, Within a loathsome Dungeon. View more context for this quotation 3. Covered with or abounding in flowers or figures of flowers; = flowery adj. Also, pertaining to or issuing from flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom blossomedc1374 blossomyc1374 flowereda1375 floweryc1374 flourishingc1400 blossoming1430 bloomed1508 blooming1587 florulent1592 bloomy?1606 floweringa1616 florid1656 floriferous1656 flosculous1656 florent1719 posied1731 emblossomed1766 phaenogamous1805 phaenogamic1808 phanerogamous1816 florescent1821 phaenogamian1828 phanerogamic1830 ablow1838 flowerful1848 floreal1852 floreted1856 blossom-laden1867 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 228 The Snake, roll'd in a flowring Banke. View more context for this quotation 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B6 This floting flouring changeable array. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 293 Groves of Myrrhe, And flouring Odours. View more context for this quotation 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 91 A flowering Garden, trimm'd for a lord's delight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1377adj.c1400
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