You may have been reading an article that said to watch for a plant bolting or a description of a plant that has bolted. If you are unfamiliar with the term, you can find information about bolting in vegetables here.
This is a big blog post, ( 25 pages). This paper was presented at the International Society for Systems Sciences Conference in Berlin August 2015. It will be published in the ISSS Journal as well. The following pages are a beginning of a concept and terminology that I have found useful in my own work…
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.
S. Kuznetsov, and S. Obiedkov. Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, page 289--300. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2001)