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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  • Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
  • A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
  • A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
  • A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. (Knight.)
  • Flowers, collectively.
  • mineralogy A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
  • The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  • The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
  • The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
  • uncountable The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

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Verb:

  • figuratively Of a person, business, etc, to flourish.
  • intransitive Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
  • transitive To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
  • transitive To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

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