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summer-blooming

summer-blooming

3.1
That blooms in summer
  • adjective
translation icon : floreciente en verano
  • Her favorite summer-blooming plants are the bright daisies and lively sunflowers that thrive in the sun.
  • summer-blooming bulbs
  • summer-blooming plant

Examples

  • No purple flowers from the summer-blooming thistle.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Summer-blooming native wildflowers include orange-grass and starry campion.

    Academic text (2011)

  • That includes the annuals, perennials, spring-blooming bulbs, and the summer-blooming bulbs—and even a healthy dose of weeds.

    Blog text (24)

  • The garden was filled with colorful summer-blooming flowers that attracted many butterflies.

  • Planting summer-blooming shrubs can add vibrant colors to your landscape during the hot months.

Synonyms

summer-flowering
vssummer-blooming
3.8

Plants that bloom in summer

has identical meaning but uses a different phrasing

Surface Forms

summer-blooming positive

Morphology

summer-blooming = summer + bloom (transparent) = summer + bloom + ing

The compound 'summer-bloom' combined with the familiar '-ing' yields a clear meaning: producing flowers in summer.

Etymology

Summer-blooming is made of summer and blooming, where summer is the warm season and blooming means 'producing flowers'. So, summer-blooming describes plants that 'produce flowers during the summer'.