bloom

Examples

• All

• Clumps of milkweed bloom in abandoned fields and along roadsides throughout eastern North America.

  Academic text (2002)

• The wildflowers' bloom painted the hillside with splashes of yellow and purple during the season.

• And on top of all of this, it was putting out blooms for two weeks straight.

• This is called Centara double bloom blue, double blue.

• The bluebells would come into bloom.

  White Bird (2023)

• These roses are so beautiful when they're in bloom.

  Meet the Applegates (1990)

• The gardens were ablaze with flowers in bloom, a formal rose garden, fountains, and wildflowers.

  Academic text (2006)

• Aunt May's pea patch was in full bloom again; in fact, the entire garden was growing profusely.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Toward the end of the month, overnight, the purple and pink perennial asters burst into bloom and for 38 hours they are all glowing.

  Master Gardener (2023)

• The garden was full of vibrant bloom as spring arrived, attracting many visitors.

Synonyms

F

flower

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∞ 1.0

Part of a plant that is often colorful and makes seeds

also means the period when plants produce flowers not only the plant part

B

blossom

vsbloom

77 1.0

A flower or a group of flowers on a tree

is more general for plant flowers or their flowering period not only fruit trees

F

full bloom

vsbloom

6 3.0

A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful

is the general noun or period not limited to the peak stage

B

blossoming

vsbloom

4 2.5

A time when flowers open and plants become full of blooms

is the general plant flower or its flowering phase not focused on development

B

blooming

vsbloom

1 1.8

The time when a plant produces flowers

also names the plant part as a noun rather than only the flowering process

F

florescence

vsbloom

• Specialized

1 8.4

Time when many flowers bloom on a plant or in a garden

also refers to the plant part as well as its flowering period

E

efflorescence

vsbloom

9.3

The time when flowers open and bloom

is the common everyday term for the same flowering time

I

inflorescence

vsbloom

• Specialized

8.7

The time when a plant's flowers form and open

is the everyday word for the plant's flower or its flowering time

A

anth

vsbloom

• Specialized

9.9

The part of a plant that often has petals and where seeds are made

is the everyday word rather than the specialist botanical term

Antonyms

F

to fade

531 1.2

To slowly become less visible, bright, or loud

W

to wither

91 4.4

To become dry and weak, as with plants or feelings

Idioms

I

in bloom

13 2.3

Having flowers open on a plant or tree

B

bloom is off the rose

• Informal

1 9.2

The first excitement has gone

Compounds

F

full bloom

6 3.0

A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful

B

bloom of youth

1 6.3

A time when a young person looks and feels their best

C

cobalt bloom

• Specialized

9.9

A reddish mineral people use to make blue glass that is found in mine veins

V

vernal bloom

6.1

A large area covered with flowers in spring

How Open

full bloom

6 3.0

bloom

52 1.0

to bud

11 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology