Meaning of reflorescent | Babel Free
ˌri.fləˈrɛs.əntExamples
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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