bloom

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the organic process of bearing flowers
noun reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
noun the best time of youth

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Its waters come to full bloom. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
There were yellow roses in bloom! — Fairy Prince and Other Stories, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom. — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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