bloom has definitions from the fields of chemistry,crystallography,botany,biology,medicine
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[ verb ] (botany) produce or yield flowers

Synonyms

blossom flower

Examples

"The cherry tree bloomed"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white_violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for_the_most_part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned upside_down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the little , dark_blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere .

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[ noun ] (biology) the organic process of bearing flowers

Synonyms

blooming

Examples

"you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

Probably no one needs to tell you that the way to stop all bloom is to let the blossoms go to seed .

Many people think that pansies last only a_few weeks , then their period of growth and bloom is over .

Related terms

organic_process

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[ noun ] (botany) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

Synonyms

flower blossom

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

That cold_frame was my morale_builder ; its mass of bright bloom set in a border of snow made my spirits rise every time I looked at it .

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large_numbers of our early insects will assemble : honeybees , bumblebees , and other wild bees , and also various kinds of flies .

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[ noun ] (medicine) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Synonyms

flush rosiness blush

Used in print

(Successful Farming, 59:12...)

0.2 gram Dynafac per head daily ( 1 gram of premix per head daily ) for promoting growth , feed conversion , bloom , and full feed earlier .

Related terms

good_health blush

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[ noun ] the best time of youth

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

Her hair was dyed , and her bloom was fading , and she must have been crowding forty , but she seemed to be one of those women who cling_to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight .

Related terms

time_of_life youth

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1415
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[ noun ] the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
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[ noun ] (chemistry,crystallography) a powdery deposit on a surface

Synonyms

efflorescence

Related terms

crystallization

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