Blossom

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A flower or cluster of flowers.
  • n. The condition or time of flowering: peach trees in blossom.
  • n. A period or condition of maximum development. See Synonyms at bloom1.
  • verb-intransitive. To come into flower; bloom.
  • verb-intransitive. To develop; flourish: The child blossomed into a beauty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.
  • n. The state or season of producing such flowers.
  • v. To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.
  • v. To begin to thrive or flourish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively.
  • n. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
  • n. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
  • verb-intransitive. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
  • verb-intransitive. To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type.
  • verb-intransitive. to appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The flower of a plant, usually more or less conspicuous from the colored leaflets which form it and which are generally of more delicate texture than the leaves of the plant.
  • n. The state of flowering or bearing flowers; bloom: as, the apple-tree is in blossom.
  • n. Any person, thing, state, or condition likened to a blossom or to the bloom of a plant.
  • n. A color consisting of a white ground mingled evenly with sorrel and bay, occurring in the coats of some horses.
  • n. The outcrop of a coal-seam, usually consisting of decomposed shale mixed with coaly matter; also, sometimes, the appearance about the outcrop of any mineral lode in which oxidizable ores occur.
  • To put forth blossoms or flowers; bloom; blow; flower: often used figuratively.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. develop or come to a promising stage
  • n. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
  • n. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
  • v. produce or yield flowers
  • Verb Form
    blossomed    blossoming    blossoms   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    develop   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    florescence    bloom    blow    flower   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    awesome    opossum    possum   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bloom    flower    rose    foliage    bud    fruit    leave    petal    leaf    shrub