| 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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