flowering
Word family (noun) flower flowering (adjective) flowered flowery flowering (verb) flower deflower
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfloweringflow‧er‧ing /ˈflaʊərɪŋ/ noun → the flowering of somethingExamples from the Corpusflowering• It is, in fact, the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the Nineties.• The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.