bloom
Other forms: blooming; blooms; bloomed
A bloom is a flower. You might mark the beginning of spring by the very first bloom you see in your garden.
The noun bloom is useful for talking about blossoms themselves, but you can also use it as a verb meaning the process of flowering: "Those trees seemed to bloom overnight!" Another meaning of bloom is more figurative, meaning the peak or ideal moment for something. The bloom of your career selling Girl Scout cookies might be one sunny weekend outside the local supermarket. The origin of the word bloom is the Old Norse word blóm, "flower or blossom."
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produce or yield flowers“The cherry tree bloomed”types:type of:developgrow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
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reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful partstypes:apetalous flowerflower having no petalsinflorescencethe flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalkray floret, ray flowersmall flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flowerbuda partially opened flowerchrysanthemumthe flower of a chrysanthemum plantflower heada shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositaerosebudthe bud of a roseumbelflat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the centercorymbflat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open firstflower clusteran inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowerscymemore or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens firstspike(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axistype of:reproductive structurethe parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
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the organic process of bearing flowers
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the period of greatest prosperity or productivitytypes:golden agea time period when some activity or skill was at its peaktype of:
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the best time of youthsynonyms: bloom of youth, salad daystype of:time of lifea period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
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a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
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a powdery deposit on a surfacesynonyms: efflorescence
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