reflorescent
/ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That flourishes again; resurgent, reviving.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From re- + florescent. Alternatively, directly from Latin reflōrēscēns, present active participle of reflōrēscō (“to flower anew”), from re- + flōrēscō (“to flower”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/
- British English: /ˌri.fləˈrɛs.ənt/
Inflected Forms
more reflorescent (comparative)
most reflorescent (superlative)