Definitions
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- adjective of plants that bloom during the winter
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Examples
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Another fragrant plant that's widely available in our area is the winter-blooming jasmine, Jasminum polyanthmum.
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It is noted for its winter-blooming, mildly fragrant, red to copper-red flowers to 1 long, each having four, narrow, ribbon-like, crinkly petals.
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All around the private chamber of the Speaker, candles glowed, orange pillars scented with barberry, green scented with pine, and white scented with the oils of winter-blooming jasmine.
Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000
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This is a free bloomer, a fact which, together with those of its winter-blooming habit and distinct flowers, renders it a valuable acquisition to the open garden.
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Neither is it particular as to soil, but I should not think of planting a winter-blooming subject in stiff or retentive loam -- that of a sandy nature is more likely to be productive of flowers.
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Bulbs furnish one of the most satisfactory classes of winter-blooming house plants, especially for city houses and apartments where conditions are not apt to favor the longevity of plants.
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The mature cones, about three-fourths of an inch long, born on the ends of the plumy branchlets, serve to enrich still more the surpassing beauty of this winter-blooming tree-goldenrod.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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Another rarely planted, attractive small winter-blooming tree is Edgeworthia chrisantha.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The garden's collection of more than 8,000 individual orchid plants mostly comprises winter-blooming orchids that are rotated in and out of the show as they come into flower.
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Doñana Biological Station in Spain measured the temperatures of the winter-blooming Helleborus foetidus in southeastern Spain with and without cultures of yeast living inside their flowers.
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