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1. Produce or yield flowers
   "The cherry tree bloomed";
   - blossom, flower
    
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, flower

1. The organic process of bearing flowers
   "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed";
   - blooming
    
2. Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colourful parts
   - flower, blossom
    
3. The best time of youth
   - bloom of youth, salad days
    
4. A rosy colour (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
   - blush, flush, rosiness
    
5. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
   - flower, prime, peak, heyday, blossom, efflorescence, flush
    
6. A powdery deposit on a surface
   - efflorescence

Derived forms: bloomed, blooming, blooms

Type of: biological process, change state, crystallisation [Brit], crystallising [Brit], crystallization, crystallizing, develop, good health, healthiness, organic process, period, period of time, reproductive structure, time of life, time period, time span, turn

Part of: angiosperm, flowering plant, youth

Encyclopedia: Bloom, Noel