2. Noun. sprouting or blossoming ¹
3. Adjective. That bourgeons ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bourgeoning
1. bourgeon [v] - See also: bourgeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bourgeoning
Literary usage of Bourgeoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology by Henry Thomas (1918)
"... trilling Or Spring come bourgeoning? When I 've heard the mountain runnel
crooning softly down its way, While it trickles through the grasses, ..."
2. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1892)
"His idea of it was that it was a bourgeoning cellule which produced at its summit a
... The bourgeoning has never yet been witnessed, and consequently, ..."
3. Footprints on the Road by Charles Kent (1864)
"The particular tree he climbed must have been, I will admit, a phenomenon amon^
its species: bourgeoning miraculously at a season unknown before or since to ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"I see the germ bursting from the acorn, with its stem and plumule of leaves ; I
see the plantlet bourgeoning from the earth ; I see the scion stretching its ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"I see the germ bursting from the acorn, with its stem and plumule of leaves; I
see the plantlet bourgeoning from the earth ; I see the scion stretching its ..."
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