Meaning

(rare) That flowers again..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) That flowers again.
2. (rare, figurative) That flourishes again; resurgent, reviving.

Example Sentences

The nearest approach to Remontant as used for Roses, would be, perhaps, "Reflorescent" or "Ever-bloom".

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.

In August most sweet reflorescent of rose trees / Folk of everywhere the blood of Paris.

K. 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.

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.

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.

Out of the “primitive life” of this mining camp and from the fecund genius of Charles F. McKim and William S. Richardson sprang the inspired vastness of a McKim, Mead & White coup de maître, its interior reflorescent of the Baths of Caracalla.

Lawler's play was greeted (with excessive optimism) as the seed of a reflorescent native drama that would bear rich and truly Australian fruits.

Word Forms

• more reflorescent
• most reflorescent

When Should You Use Reflorescent?

Use reflorescent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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