Word Finder - thriving

definition

To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.

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Not all animals thrive well in captivity.

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To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

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Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived.

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The action of the verb to thrive.

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That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.

synonyms

• fortunate
• prosperous
• successful

It is a thriving town, and the outlet for the trade of the Sivas vilayet.

It is a thriving trading centre and port.

Portrush has a thriving trade in salmon.

In addition to operating horse drawn busses and carts, a thriving livery stable and saddlery business was operated.

The town developed into a thriving port during the 18th century when the main activity was the shipping of locally produced coal.

Breckenridge, with its historic museums and thriving arts district, attracts people who want a bit of intellectual stimulation with their winter sport vacation.

With several television and film credits to her name, as well as a thriving music career, Miranda Cosgrove is a name we can expect to hear a lot of in the future.

In a city, this was comparatively easy, as there used to be thriving garment districts and so people had connections.

This designer can be found in higher end department stores and various boutiques throughout the States, but Tartine also features a thriving e-boutique.

Griselinia - There are certain exposed spots in our shore gardens where even the toughest of shrubs are apt to fail, and in this little group we have the best of all plants for such a position, thriving in any soil, and sea-wind proof.

China, and is hardy, thriving in light moist humus, and covered during early summer with white funnel-shaped flowers in small clusters, followed by fragrant oval berries, at first red, but black and sweet when ripe.

G. repens rosea is a pretty dwarf rock plant, thriving also in borders, flowering long in summer and autumn, and with foliage of a pleasant glaucous color.

It is a moisture-loving plant, thriving in peat or leafy soil in a half-shady place.

Ipomopsis - Graceful biennials from California, thriving in light, dry, and warm soils in the milder districts.

It requires much the same treatment as Shortia, thriving in well-drained sandy loam and peat, in cool and moist but not wet or shady places.

America, hardy, thriving in light soil, preferring peat, and are suitable for the margins of groups of American shrubs and for low parts of rock gardens.

Lomaria Procera - A handsome large-growing Fern, thriving in the open air in the milder parts of Britain, particularly where the atmosphere is moist, as in Ireland and the south-west of England.

China, as yet little known, but thriving in high ground at Haslemere, in Surrey.

It is a charming plant, thriving best in sandy or peaty soil under shrubs, growing only a few inches high.

For this purpose the most suitable are M. falcata and elegans, both vigorous herbs with yellow flowers, thriving in almost any kind of soil.

It is a small evergreen shrub, bearing in summer numerous urn-shaped flowers about 1 1/2 inches long and of a brilliant scarlet, thriving in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, in a moist sheltered spot with perfect drainage.

C. monspeliensis is a pretty dwarf plant of the Primrose order, about 6 inches high, usually biennial in our gardens, thriving on dry sunny parts of the rock garden, in sandy soil, and among dwarf plants.

N. physaloides is a pretty Peruvian half-hardy annual, about 2 feet high, of stout growth, bearing in summer numerous showy blue and white bell-like flowers, and thriving in an open position in light soil.

Orchis Laxiflora - A pretty species, 1 foot to 18 inches high, with loose spikes of rich purplish-red flowers, opening in May and June, and thriving in a moist spot in the rock garden.

Phyllodoce - A dwarf evergreen mountain shrub with pretty bell flowers, thriving only in cool parts of a good rock garden.

Admirable plants for picturesque groups, very hardy, easily increased by division, thriving in any soil, but the foliage effect is finer on deep, rich soil.

Is a good lawn tree, thriving in towns better than most conifers; it also bears cutting without injury, though naturally of a fine pyramidal habit.

Recently, the German traveler, Dr Purpus, and various American botanists have found in the mountains of Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, and Arizona a rich variety of hardy Cacti thriving at elevations of 5,000 to 8,000 feet.

It is a most desirable plant, thriving best in light warm soils, and is suited either for the rock-garden or dry banks.

There is also a pure white, and various other forms thriving in moist situations in a deep light soil.

It is later in flowering than other Camassias, thriving in a light rich soil.

It has long been grown in botanic and choice collections, thriving in a shady position such as may be found in a good rock garden, in moist peaty soil, with here and there a soft sandstone for its roots to run among.

Rhododendron Falconeri - A noble kind thriving in Cornish gardens, with oblong leaves about 10 inches long, coated beneath with reddish down, dark green, slightly downy and curiously wrinkled above.

Few are very effective for gardens; some are brilliant border or rock plants, thriving in warm soils.

They are charming for the rock garden, thriving in a light peaty soil.

There is a white and a purple variety, both handsome plants, thriving in almost any soil.

Sneeze-weed (Helenium) - Vigorous and showy plants, flowering in autumn, and thriving in any soil, and, where rightly used, excellent plants.

America, nearly allied to Loosestrife, and thriving under the same conditions.

The Sumachs are not difficult as to soil or cultivation, thriving in ordinary garden soils, and rather enjoying poor and dry soils, some of them being suitable, therefore, for grouping on dry banks where little else will grow.

Scarlet Sumach (Rhus Glabra) - A distinct very hardy, bushy kind, with smooth rather small leaves, thriving in any poor dry soil, the leaves taking a very brilliant color in autumn.

This tree, thriving in wet and marshy places, is more at home in Great Britain than some of the American trees.

Tassel Tree (Acacia) - Beautiful shrubs and trees, thriving in warmer countries, but a few grown out of doors do well in parts of England.

T. grandiflora has leaves prettily colored and veined like Heuchera Richardsoni, and spikes of small yellowish bell-like flowers, thriving in any soil.

Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus) - A Chinese hardy tree, thriving in the southern parts of England.

Both are of easy culture, thriving in open borders of good deep soil, and increased by seeds, cuttings, or division of the roots.

I have often seen it thriving where the air was pure and the soil suitable; and it is excellent for a moist rock garden, growing rapidly, and forming a charming fringe to groups of small alpine shrubs, on cool parts of the rock garden.

It is hardy in Britain, thriving best in sandy soils beside water, but it will grow almost anywhere except in hot, dry places.

It is one of the finest dark kinds, thriving in exposed open water, and effective in the distance.

Rosea - Another stout grower, thriving in deep water, to which its long slender stems are suited.

Nymphaea Alba Tuberosa - The vigorous Water-Lily of the United States, thriving in deep water, lifting its flowers high out of the water, and spreading rapidly by long tuberous offsets.