- present participle of flower.
flowering
Example Sentences
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Larger flowers may improve a plant's chances of attracting pollinators, while flowering earlier can help plants respond to changing environmental conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
If flowering plants begin to dry up, they produce less.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Here, Hazel and Fiver were sitting with Dandelion under a flowering wild cherry.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
