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

• 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.

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)

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

See also

• fluorescence