blossom
has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
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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[ verb ] (botany) produce or yield flowers
Examples "The cherry tree bloomed" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)These cut-down plants will bud and blossom in record time and will behave just as they did in early spring . I like to shear half my plants at_a_time , leaving one half of them to blossom while the second_half is getting_started on its new round of blooming . |
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[ verb ] develop or come to a promising stage
Synonyms Examples "Youth blossomed into maturity" Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)And it is thought by many who think_about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet , progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso , and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De_Kooning . |
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 3181
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13349
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[ noun ] the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
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