late-blooming

Thân thiện

The late-blooming chrysanthemums add color to the autumn garden.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Flowering or developing later than the typical or expected period: Describes plants that produce their flowers or reach maturity in the autumn season, after the main spring and summer blooming periods.

Usage

This adjective is used specifically to describe the flowering time of plants. It is typically placed before the noun it modifies (attributive position).

Examples

• The garden features several late-blooming varieties of asters and chrysanthemums.
• To ensure color in your garden until the first frost, include some late-blooming perennials.
• This late-blooming rose is a favorite for its fragrance in October.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically to describe a person who achieves success, develops a skill, or reaches their potential later in life than is usual. However, this is an extended figurative sense and the primary, literal meaning relates to botany.
  • Figurative Example: She was a late-blooming artist, holding her first major exhibition at the age of sixty.

Variants and Related Words

• Late-bloomer (noun): A plant that blooms late in the season. Figuratively, a person who matures or succeeds later than peers.
  • Example: The 'Autumn Joy' sedum is a reliable late-bloomer.

Synonyms

• Autumn-blooming
• Fall-blooming
• Autumn-flowering

Antonyms

• Early-blooming
• Spring-flowering

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of plants that bloom during the autumn

Từ đồng nghĩa

• autumn-flowering
• autumn-blooming
• fall-flowering
• fall-blooming
• late-flowering