Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition or time of flowering.
- noun A condition or period of great vigor. synonym: bloom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a bursting into flower; the state of being in bloom; inflorescence; anthesis.
- noun A flowering or blossoming out; growth; development; maturity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The time, or the condition of
budding orflowering
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although, like Crash, Lord Horror is composed in conventional narrative, it is not what it seems; it is an intricate tableau, or rather a series of tableaux, a florescence from a central idea, which we expanded into picaresque forms that really make no overall narrative sense.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009
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I was sitting on the floor with my back resting against the tub, washed in florescence, the door closed and locked.
Clapping games… : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The low-watt florescence lights, the sweet edgy smells, the greetings with hands so dry they feel like crushed autumn leaves.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The low-watt florescence lights, the sweet edgy smells, the greetings with hands so dry they feel like crushed autumn leaves.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The low-watt florescence lights, the sweet edgy smells, the greetings with hands so dry they feel like crushed autumn leaves.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The low-watt florescence lights, the sweet edgy smells, the greetings with hands so dry they feel like crushed autumn leaves.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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"This is the florescence and each one of these is a seed," noted Indupulapati Rao who is studying Brachiaria at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, the third largest city in Colombia.
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Gigantism during the florescence of adaptive release and dwarfism later as resources are maxed out?
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But this florescence of mass bohemianism did not occur in a political vacuum; the counterculture, with its half-conscious invention of new forms of masculinity, was one element of the thriving social-movement sector of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Still, The Farm coalesced during the florescence of gay liberation, and so Stephen's virtual silence on the subject proves historically significant. 19
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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