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flower

2 verb
     
Related topics: Gardening, Plants
flower2 [intransitive]
1DLGHBP to produce flowers:
Bulbs that you plant in the autumn should flower the following spring.
2 literaryA to develop in a very successful way:
the economic and social conditions that will allow democracy to flower
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