florescence

English

Etymology

From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“I 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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /flɔˈɹɛsəns/
• Homophone: fluorescence, in some pronunciations

Noun

florescence (countable and uncountable, plural florescences)

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

Usage notes

Not to be confused with fluorescence.

Translations

The time, or the condition of budding or flowering

• Bulgarian: цъфтеж (bg) m (cǎftež), цъфтене (bg) n (cǎftene)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花期 (zh) (huāqī)

• German: Blütezeit (de) f, Blüte (de) f