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say it: bloom
bloom is a noun and verb meaning "the organic process of bearing flowers". It carries 7 recorded senses.
the organic process of bearing flowers
“you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed”
reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
the best time of youth
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
a powdery deposit on a surface
produce or yield flowers
“The cherry tree bloomed”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bloom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.