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florescence

Pronunciation: /flɔˈɹɛsəns/

The English word “florescence” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. The time, or the condition, of budding or flowering.

Etymology

From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“to bloom, flower”) + -ēscō, from flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”), as if through the form flōrēscentia.

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