---

• n  the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
• v  produce or yield flowers
• v  develop or come to a promising stage

• His realm includes a blossoming financial center, regional headquarters for global brands, mega shopping malls, amusement parks, a world-class airline and an airport to go with it .
• Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead.
• Predicting the cherry tree's blossoming date is essential to Japanese corporate life.

• flowering
• florescence
• inflorescence
• anthesis
• efflorescence
• bloom
• blossom
• flower
• blossom out
• blossom forth
• unfold

News & Articles

---

• Festival continues to 'blossom'
  After seven years, the annual Cranberry Blossom Festival is undergoing several additions and changes, all aimed at showcasing the 'blossoming' community.
  June 20, 2013 - Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
• Analysis: Brazil's protests: Not quite a 'Tropical Spring'
  By Brian Winter SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's blossoming protest movement is a coming-of-age for what had been one of Latin America's most politically disengaged youth populations, but does not appear to constitute a major threat to governability or established political parties. The protests, which gathered steam last week and saw some 200,000 Brazilians demonstrate in a dozen cities on Monday ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Recent
  Tanner Stewart’s blossoming golf career was launched on the Wii. When the Hermosa Beach resident was only four years old, he began playing virtual games on his new Wii game console. He and his older brother quickly excelled at all the Wii Sports — baseball, basketball, bowling and more.
  June 19, 2013 - Easy Reader

Quotes

---

• Joe Torre in SI.com
  It may be a slow process, but once it starts blossoming I think you are going to see a number of players from China making an impact,Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "We all have to put in the time right now and be patient."
• Arsene Wenger in Sportinglife.com
  Having lost Thierry (Henry), it has helped the belief and mental strength of the team to start well,Wenger added. "We never forget Thierry but we know that the team is blossoming and growing. There is something in the side: quality, of...
• Ichiro Suzuki in MLB.com
  If you look at the potential on this team, you can understand why our record is what it is right now,Ichiro said. "For the past two and three years, we've worked really hard, and now we're in a place where all our hard work is blossoming."