Synonyms: blossoming, anthesis, efflorescence, inflorescence, florescence, flowering
Definition: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Similar words: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (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
Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Synonyms: unfolding, flowering
Definition: a developmental process
Usage: the flowering of antebellum culture
Similar words: development, evolution
Definition: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
Usage: the development of his ideas took many years; the evolution of Greek civilization; the slow development of her skill as a writer