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the time when a plant has flowers 开花时节 Plant bulbs in September for spring flowering. 在9月开花鳞茎的春天开花。
- [countable, usually singular] flowering of something
the time when something, especially a period of new ideas in art, music, science, etc., reaches its most complete and successful stage of development （艺术、音乐、科学等新思潮的）繁荣时期，鼎盛时期 the flowering of Viennese intellectual life 维也纳学术生活的繁荣兴盛。 the flowering of democracy 民主的开花