noun. A flower or cluster of flowers.

noun. The condition or time of flowering.

noun. A condition or period of maximum development. synonym: bloom.

intransitive verb. To come into flower; bloom.

intransitive verb. To develop; flourish.

To put forth blossoms or flowers; bloom; blow; flower: often used figuratively.

noun. The flower of a plant, usually more or less conspicuous from the colored leaflets which form it and which are generally of more delicate texture than the leaves of the plant.

noun. The state of flowering or bearing flowers; bloom: as, the apple-tree is in blossom.

noun. Any person, thing, state, or condition likened to a blossom or to the bloom of a plant.

noun. A color consisting of a white ground mingled evenly with sorrel and bay, occurring in the coats of some horses.

noun. The outcrop of a coal-seam, usually consisting of decomposed shale mixed with coaly matter; also, sometimes, the appearance about the outcrop of any mineral lode in which oxidizable ores occur.

intransitive verb. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

intransitive verb. To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type.

intransitive verb. to appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly.

noun. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively.

noun. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.

noun. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.

noun. having the blossoms open; in bloom.

noun. A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.

noun. The state or season of producing such flowers.

verb. To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.

verb. To begin to thrive or flourish.

verb. develop or come to a promising stage

noun. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

noun. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

verb. produce or yield flowers

"It takes, like the aloe, a long time to flower, but the blossom is all the more precious when it appears."

to nip in the blossom  

apple blossom  blossom-end rot  blossom-faced  blossom-headed  blossom-nosed  

develop  

awesome  opossum  possum  

bloom  bough  bud  bush  flower  

advance  anthesis  batten  be in bloom  be in flower  

blossomed  blossoming  blossoms