late-blooming
adjective
1(Of a plant) blooming relatively late in the growing season, typically in late summer or early autumn.
2 Figurative that develops or occurs relatively late in a person's life; (of a person) developing a skill, interest, etc., later in life.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas May (d. 1650), writer and historian.
- -haemia
- haemo-
- haemochromatosis
- haemocoel
- haemocyanin
- haemocyte
- haemocytometer
- haemodialysis
- haemodynamic
- haemodynamically
- haemodynamics
- haemoglobin
- haemoglobinopathy
- haemoglobinuria
- wastebasket
- waste bin
- wasted
- waste disposal unit
- waste disposer
- wasteful
- wastefully
- wastefulness
- wastegate
- wasteland
- wasteless