- present participle of flower.
flowering
Example Sentences
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To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Peonies and roses - some of the most popular choices for a British wedding – saw their flowering window narrow from two months to two weeks.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
They support an estimated 75% of global crop pollination, and nearly 90% of all flowering plants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
They grow in both a leaf stage, when they resemble small trees, and in a rare flowering stage that may have gaps of several years or even a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For the second time that evening, Briony felt a flowering of tenderness for her cousin.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
