[ad. mod.L. flōrescentia, f. L. flōrescent-em: see next and -ENCE.] The process of producing flowers or bursting into flower; the period or state of flowering. Also concr. Flowers collectively.
1793. Martyn, Lang. Bot., Florescentia. Florescence, or the Flowering season. The time when vegetables usually expand their flowers.
1819. H. Busk, Banquet, I. 16.
| The grass that hides its modest head from view | |
| Fragrant with fresh florescence teams for you. |
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 124. Wherefore, too, should the head of Apargia hispida be cernuous in bud, erect in flower and in maturation of seed, while the Goatsbeard and all the Hieracia are erect throughout the process of florescence and semination?
