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1. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
    
2. Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colourful parts
   - bloom, blossom
    
3. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
   - prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush

1. Produce or yield flowers
   "The cherry tree flowered"
   - bloom, blossom
    
2. Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
   - thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish, bloom

Sounds like: flour

Derived forms: flowers, flowered, flowering

See also: floral, flowering, flowery

Type of: angiosperm, change state, develop, flowering plant, period, period of time, reproductive structure, time period, turn

Part of: angiosperm, flowering plant

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