Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The period during which a flower is fully open and functional.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The period or act of expansion in flowers.
Wiktionary
- n. The event of a flower opening.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἄνθος (anthos, "flower"), + -ησις, suffix indicating an event. (Wiktionary)
- Greek anthēsis, flowering, from anthein, to bloom, from anthos, flower. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Emasculation and bagging was done at the beginning of anthesis, that is, when the first unisexual male catkins began to shed pollen.”
“Fritz (God Told Me To Hate Conservatives) says: pezmiztix says: the progressive ideology is the anthesis of the fundamental values which have made this country great.”
“Alecto (sponsored by the Treasonous Supreme Court) says: pezmiztix says: the progressive ideology is the anthesis of the fundamental values which have made this country great.”
“The dialectic is anologous to the hammer and the anvil–the hammer rises, the thesis, the hammer falls, the anthesis, and finally the anvil becomes the new synthesis, the new policies.”
“I think focus is a great rule, but 'being tiny' as a mindset/rule, so you can flip the company for less than $50M to get around accounting issues with your true valuation is just the anthesis of entrepreneurship to me. evhead did sell his first company to Google and get his second podcasting one substantially funded, which I didnt, so The Farmer may be right, or lucky.”
“But I was surprised to hear that it was perceived by someone as the anthesis of being a physicist.”
“Hence we can't really compare them. religious promises are the very anthesis of the tech-singularity we'll be smarter and thereforemay arrive at an answer or state we can't currently achieve”
“So that they can force their bad stories of murder and mayhem on the blogsphere. network news is the anthesis of blog world.”
“These swellings help to spread out the branches especially at the time of anthesis.”
“These glands secrete a viscid juice at the time of anthesis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anthesis’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
If you want to see the definitions, too, go to
http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abasia, abask, abb, abba, abbatial, abra and 1214 more...
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Found Poetry
Sometimes there are definitions from the Century Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, and Wiktionary which would make lovely found poems. This is a list of words which seem to have lyrical or ...
remote, diurnally, thence, anthesis, lew, interlock, fremd, pluck, commit, meddle, cant, cloud-built and 17 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Phylum Obscurata Botanica
It Makes The Words, or It gets The Hose. Again.
mormo, liparos, leptotes, gaster, graphe, opsis, kochliodes, cirrus, xhonseoa, rhynchos, kata, kalos and 157 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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bloom
flora-nce and -anth-
anthemion, anthesis, acidanthera, agapanthus, dianthus, exanthema, chrysanthemum, acanthæ, anthelia, perianth, monanthous, helianthus and 40 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anthesis.
jmjarmstrong JM is avoiding the antithesis of anthesis. Apr 5, 2011
missanthropist Greek Flowering. Jul 9, 2008