flowerings
Plants producing blooms
Flowerings is the plural of flowering, which refers to instances or periods of producing flowers.
More often, it describes moments when something reaches full development or expression: the multiple flowerings of the Renaissance across Europe, her career saw several creative flowerings.
The word emphasizes discrete episodes of blooming or flourishing rather than a continuous state.
Reaching adult status
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- self-actualizationAchieving one's complete potential
- growthIncrease in size
- developmentProgress toward maturity
awakening · unfolding · realization · emergence · transformation · evolution · ripening · fulfillment
Clustered bloom arrangements
- petalsColored bloom segments
- budsPre-bloom plant growths
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
- stamensPollen-bearing flower organs
pistils · sepals · corollas · florets · racemes · umbels · spikes · catkins
Cultural or artistic revivals
- golden agesPeriods of peak prosperity
- blossomingsActs of bursting into flower
- efflorescencesFlowering or crystalline outcrops
- peaksHighest points attained
zeniths · heydays · apogees · revivals · awakenings · enlightenments · movements · epochs
Supreme creative achievements
- breakthroughsSudden significant advances
- innovationsNew methods or devices
- expressionsOutward manifestations of feeling
- manifestationsPerceptible forms of something
productions · outputs · achievements · culminations · realizations · developments · evolutions · emergences
coming of age
Reaching adult status
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- self-actualizationAchieving one's complete potential
- growthIncrease in size
development · awakening · unfolding · realization · emergence · transformation · evolution · ripening · fulfillment · becoming
inflorescences
Clustered bloom arrangements
- petalsColored bloom segments
- budsPre-bloom plant growths
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
stamens · pistils · sepals · corollas · florets · racemes · umbels · spikes · catkins · perennials
renaissances
Cultural or artistic revivals
- golden agesPeriods of peak prosperity
- blossomingsActs of bursting into flower
- efflorescencesFlowering or crystalline outcrops
peaks · zeniths · heydays · apogees · revivals · awakenings · enlightenments · movements · epochs · eras
masterworks
Supreme creative achievements
- breakthroughsSudden significant advances
- innovationsNew methods or devices
- expressionsOutward manifestations of feeling
manifestations · productions · outputs · achievements · culminations · realizations · developments · evolutions · emergences
floweringsdormancies
States of suspended activity
wilting · witherings · hibernations · decay · rest periods
floweringsdeclines
Refuses or diminishes
witherings · fadeouts · collapses · deteriorations · deaths
floweringsstagnations
Prolonged lack of progress
declines · dark ages · downfalls · regressions · depressions
- flowering bulbsUnderground plant structures
- flowering plantsSeed-bearing plants with blooms
- flowering treeBlossoming woody perennial
- flowering shrubsWoody plants bearing blossoms
- flowering seasonPeriod when blossoms appear
- flowering dogwoodOrnamental understory tree