Definition of "flourishes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish. (verb)
• Plural form of flourish. (noun)

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• "Convolvulus major – the Morning Glory, as our American cousins so prettily call it – flourishes on a smutty wall as generously as the Virginian creeper."
• "Freedom of expression flourishes as the psychology of fear which characterised Soviet rule has evaporated."
• "This needful bond between ideas and the further existences they forebode is not merely a logical postulate, taken on trust because the ideas in themselves assert it; it is a previous and genetic bond, proper to the soil in which the idea flourishes and a condition of its existence."