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blossom

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blos⋅som

  [blos-uhm]
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–noun Botany.
1. the flower of a plant, esp. of one producing an edible fruit.
2. the state of flowering: The apple tree is in blossom.
–verb (used without object)
3. Botany. to produce or yield blossoms.
4. to flourish; develop (often fol. by into or out): a writer of commercial jingles who blossomed out into an important composer.
5. (of a parachute) to open.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME blosme, blossem, OE blōstm(a), blōsma flower; c. MD bloesem, MLG blosem, blossem; (v.) ME blosmen, OE blōstmian, deriv. of the n. See bloom 1 , blow 3

Related forms:
blos⋅som⋅less, adjective
blos⋅som⋅y, adjective

Synonyms:
4. thrive, bloom, burgeon, sprout.

Blos⋅som

  [blos-uhm]
–noun
a female given name.
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blos·som   (blŏs'əm)   
n.  

  1. A flower or cluster of flowers.

  2. The condition or time of flowering: peach trees in blossom.

  3. A period or condition of maximum development. See Synonyms at bloom1.

intr.v.   blos·somed, blos·som·ing, blos·soms

  1. To come into flower; bloom.

  2. To develop; flourish: The child blossomed into a beauty.


[Middle English, from Old English blōstm; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.]
blos'som·y adj.
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