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reflorescent

UK/ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/US/ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/

reflorescent adjective: that flowers again.

Adjective

reflorescent (comparative more reflorescent, superlative most reflorescent)

  1. (rare) That flowers again.
    • The nearest approach to Remontant as used for Roses, would be, perhaps, "Reflorescent" or "Ever-bloom".[1872 February 15, “Roses and Their Nomenclature”, in The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen, page 150
    • The half darkness became dissilient; the first beam of sunlight showed to Gifford and Stralie, growing out of the lime-crop that had shattered him, the reflorescent cotton-trees, whose blood the sudden breaking of the drought had startled into two blowths in the one year.1905, Randolph Bedford, The Snare of Strength, London: William Heinemann, page 340
  2. (figuratively, rare) That flourishes again; resurgent, reviving.
    • The absence of suitable means of expression in the vernacular for the rich dogmatic and ascetic teaching of a former age had led men to apply to this divine matter the classic forms so exuberantly reflorescent in the sixteenth century.1897 October, H. B. Mackey, “St. Francis de Sales as a Preacher”, in The Dublin Review, volume 121, page 398
    • She, in the relative shade of her parasol, was revelling in this bath of light, like a plant adapted to a southern exposure; whilst he, reflorescent, felt the burning sap of the soil rise up through his limbs in a flood of exultant virility.1957, Vladimir Kean, transl., Doctor Pascal, London: Elek Books, translation of Le Docteur Pascal by Émile Zola, page 164

Examples of reflorescent in a sentence

  • In August most sweet reflorescent of rose trees / Folk of everywhere the blood of Paris.1946, “Paris”, in Stephen Spender, transl., edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley, Aragon: Poet of Resurgent France, translation of...
  • Marti […] suggests that Dante may have also been thinking of the iuncus in Isaiah 35:7, as well as the reflorescent tree in Job 14:7.2013, Robert Hollander, “Dante's Cato Again”, in Elena Lombardi, Maggie Kilgour, editors, Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of...
  • Richardson sprang the inspired vastness of a McKim, Mead & White coup de maître, its interior reflorescent of the Baths of Caracalla.1980, Grace M. Mayer, Once upon a City, New York: Octagon Books, →ISBN, page 289:
  • Lawler's play was greeted (with excessive optimism) as the seed of a reflorescent native drama that would bear rich and truly Australian fruits.1983 January, Dennis Biggins, The Modern Language Review, volume 78, number 1, Modern Humanities Research Association, page 175:

Forms of reflorescent

comparativemore reflorescent
superlativemost reflorescent

Origin of reflorescent

From re- + florescent. Alternatively, directly from Latin reflōrēscēns, present active participle of reflōrēscō (“to flower anew”), from re- + flōrēscō (“to flower”).

Words that rhyme with reflorescent

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Questions about reflorescent

What does reflorescent mean?
Reflorescent means that flowers again.
How do you use reflorescent in a sentence?
In August most sweet reflorescent of rose trees / Folk of everywhere the blood of Paris.
What part of speech is reflorescent?
Reflorescent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce reflorescent?
Reflorescent is pronounced /ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/ (UK).

Words near reflorescent in the dictionary

  1. refloored
  2. reflooring
  3. refloorings
  4. reflorescence
  5. reflorescences
  6. reflorescent
  7. refloss
  8. reflossed
  9. reflosses
  10. reflossing
  11. reflotation

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