01 a. Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
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Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.(Bot.)
Phrases & compounds
Flowering fern —
a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
Flowering plants —
plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants.
Flowering rush —
a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.