anthesis

Noun

Open English WordNet

the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossomsSynonyms: blossoming flowering florescence inflorescence efflorescenceType of growth, growing

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An·the′sis (…), noun

Origin: Gr. … bloom, fr. ἀνθεῖν to bloom, ἄνθος flower.

Botany The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Asa Gray

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54