bloom

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bloom

1	v n	produce or yield flowers reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
2	n	the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
3	n	a powdery deposit on a surface

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bloom

“The cherry tree bloomed”

Type of:: develop
grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; floret, floweret
a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower); apetalous flower
flower having no petals; inflorescence
the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk; ray floret, ray flower
small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower; bud
a partially opened flower; chrysanthemum
the flower of a chrysanthemum plant; flower head
a 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 Compositae; ament, catkin
a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence; rosebud
the bud of a rose; umbel
flat-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 center; corymb
flat-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 first; flower cluster
an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers; cyme
more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first; spike
(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis

Type of:: reproductive structure
the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction

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

Type of:: biological process, organic process
a process occurring in living organisms

Types:: golden age
a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak

Type of:: time of life
a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

Type of:: good health, healthiness
the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease

Type of:: crystallisation, crystallization, crystallizing
the formation of crystals

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