[f. FLOWER v. + -ER1.] A person or thing that flowers.
1. A plant that flowers in some specified way or at some specified season.
1851. Glenny, Handbk. Fl. Gard., 194. These Chrysanthemums, besides being abundant flowerers, continue their bloom until the frost cuts the plant and flowers down together.
1882. The Garden, XXI. 21 Jan., 34/1. Auriculas are spring flowerers.
2. (See quot.)
1865. Eliza Meteyard, Life J. Wedgwood, I. vi. 234. This was an ordinary white body scratched with a sharp nail by women, called ‘flowerers,’ who, when they had incised by faint lines flowers that had no likeness in nature, or grotesque imitations of Chinese pagodas and umbrella-covered mandarins, dusted in the pattern with ground zaffre.
