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

Synonyms

flower bloom

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

Synonyms

bloom flower

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

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 .

Related terms

develop develop unfolding

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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

Related terms

time_period golden_age

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