Blossom
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.
Colloquially flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink. Plum blossoms, apple blossoms, orange blossoms, some cherry blossoms, and most almond blossoms are white.
Blossoms provide pollen to pollinators such as bees, and initiate cross-pollination necessary for the trees to reproduce by producing fruit.
Blossom trees have a tendency to lose their flower petals in wind-blown cascades, often covering the surrounding ground in petals. This attribute tends to distinguish blossom trees from other flowering trees.
Bloom (noun)
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Bloom (noun)
Flowers, collectively.
Bloom (noun)
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
“The cherry trees are in bloom.”
Bloom (noun)
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
“the bloom of youth”
Bloom (noun)
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
Bloom (noun)
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
Bloom (noun)
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Bloom (noun)
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Bloom (noun)
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
“the rose-red cobalt bloom”
Bloom (noun)
A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
Bloom (noun)
An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
Bloom (noun)
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Bloom (verb)
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Bloom (verb)
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
Bloom (verb)
Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
Bloom (verb)
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
Blossom (noun)
A fruit fruiting; a mass of such flowers.
“The blossom has come early this year.”
Blossom (noun)
The state or season of producing such flowers.
“The orchard is in blossom.”
Blossom (noun)
A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
Blossom (noun)
The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
Blossom (verb)
To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
Blossom (verb)
To begin to flourish.
Bloom (noun)
a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
“an exotic bloom”
Bloom (noun)
the state or period of flowering
“the apple trees were in bloom”
Bloom (noun)
the state or period of greatest beauty, freshness, or vigour
“I am no longer in the bloom of youth”
Bloom (noun)
a youthful or healthy glow in a person’s complexion
“her face had lost its usual bloom”
Bloom (noun)
a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
“the bloom on a plum”
Bloom (noun)
a greyish-white appearance on chocolate caused by cocoa butter rising to the surface.
Bloom (noun)
short for algal bloom
Bloom (noun)
a full, bright sound in a recording
“the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings”
Bloom (noun)
a mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
“an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace”
Bloom (noun)
an unworked mass of puddled iron.
Bloom (verb)
produce flowers; be in flower
“a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed”
Bloom (verb)
come into or be in full beauty or health; flourish
“the children had bloomed in the soft Devonshire air”
Bloom (verb)
(of fire, colour, or light) become radiant and glowing
“colour bloomed in her cheeks”
Bloom (verb)
coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.
Bloom (verb)
make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.
Blossom (noun)
a flower or a mass of flowers, especially on a tree or bush
“tiny white blossoms”
“the slopes were ablaze with almond blossom”
Blossom (noun)
the state or period of flowering
“fruit trees in blossom”
Blossom (verb)
(of a tree or bush) produce flowers or masses of flowers
“a garden in which roses blossom”
Blossom (verb)
mature or develop in a promising or healthy way
“their friendship blossomed into romance”