1 [U] the time when a plant has flowers:
Plant bulbs in September for spring flowering.
2 [C,usually sing.] ~ of sth the time when sth, especially a period of new ideas in art, music, science, etc., reaches its most complete and successful stage of development:
the flowering of Viennese intellectual life * the flowering of democracy
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