单词 | late-blooming |
释义 | > as lemmaslate-blooming late-blooming adj. (a) (of a plant) blooming relatively late in the growing season, typically in late summer or early autumn; (b) figurative that develops or occurs relatively late in a person's life; (of a person) developing a skill, interest, etc., later in life; cf. late bloomer n. at late adj.1 Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iv. 117 How the late blooming Daffodils [L. sera comantem narcissum] do grow. 1823 C. Harrison Treat. on Culture & Managem. Fruit Trees iii. 11 Apples, Morella and May Duke Cherries, with any of the late blooming kinds of Plums. 1878 Libr. Table 25 May 262/2 A late blooming love promised a resurrection of the heart that surprised himself as much as anyone. 1898 Garden 12 Nov. 389/2 It is about the smallest Chrysanthemum I know. It is late blooming. 1953 Princeton Alumni Weekly 16 Jan. 24/3 Ted is a desk man on the ‘Worcester Telegram’... Also a late-blooming golfer. 1999 Along Huron (Dept. Parks & Recreation, Ann Arbor, Mich.) 27 The spectacular season is the fall when..late-blooming wildflowers are in full colour. 2008 M. Hammond & E. Heltzel Between Covers vi. 182 At eighty-six, she sold an article..to the St. Petersburg Times. That article led to a late-blooming career as a monthly columnist. < as lemmas |
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