BLOSSOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blossoming mean? 

• BLOSSOMING (noun)
  The noun BLOSSOMING has 1 sense:

1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

  Familiarity information: BLOSSOMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOSSOMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

anthesis; blossoming; efflorescence; florescence; flowering; inflorescence

Hypernyms ("blossoming" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

 Context examples 

The chemical processes that influence biodiversity by stimulating the sprouting and blossoming of plants, fruiting and seed dispersal, are regulated partly by fires.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

The formation of high-mass X-ray binaries is a natural consequence of such blossoming star birth as some of the young massive stars, which often form in pairs, evolve into these systems.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

The February 23 new moon in Pisces at four degrees has been custom made for the blossoming of love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your career is blossoming beautifully too, and last month you made huge strides.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)