Word Finder - bloom

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A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

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Flowers, collectively.

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The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

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The cherry trees are in bloom.

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A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

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the bloom of youth

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Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.

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The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.

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Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.

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The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

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A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

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A bright-hued variety of some minerals.

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the rose-red cobalt bloom

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A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.

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An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

All the beautiful flowers are in bloom now.

They bloom during the spring and early summer months.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands.

Flowers which bloom in the early spring are abundant, especially on the edges of forests.

Near Cape May fruit trees bloom two or three weeks earlier than in the Highlands.

They'll bloom forever, if it makes you happy.

They bloom in spring, and prefer a shady situation and a peaty soil.

Adjacent is the garden in which the saint's thornless roses bloom in May.

It is wonderful to see flowers bloom in the midst of a snow-storm!

Other zinc minerals are willemite, Zn 2 SiO 4, hydrozincite or zinc bloom, ZnCO 3.2Zn(OH)2, zincite or red zinc ore, ZnO, and franklinite, 3(Fe,Zn)0 (Fe,Mn) 2 0 3 .

They bloom about March or April in the open air.

Flora.The Alpine flora, which is found in the United States only on the tops of those mountains which rise above the limit of trees, consists principally of a variety of plants which bloom as soon as the snow melts and for a short season make a brilliant display of colors.

This bloom is immediately rolled down into a long flat bar, called " muck bar," and this in turn is cut into short lengths which, piled one on another, are reheated and again rolled down, sometimes with repeated cutting, FIG.

He showed his versatility in landscape, as in his "Whins in Bloom," which combined great breadth with fine detail; in flower-pieces, such as his "Roses," which were brilliant in rapid suggestiveness and force; but most of all in his portraits, which are marked by great individuality, and by fine insight into character.

Irrigation has shown that with water, arid and barren plains, veritable deserts, may be made to bloom with immense wealth of semi-tropical fruits; and irrigation in the tropical area along the Colorado river, which is so arid that it naturally bears only desert vegetation, has made it a true humid-tropical region like Southern Florida, growing true tropical fruits.

The prevailing bloom is pink coloured.

The world wags on, a rose will bloom....

They flower in early spring, and all have a fine appearance when in bloom, on account of their large showy umbels of yellow flowers.

Here BB is a large fixed iron cylinder, corrugated within, and C an excentric cylinder, also corrugated, which, in turning to the right, by the friction of its corrugated surface rotates the puddled ball D which has just entered at A, so that, turning around its own axis, it travels to the right and is gradually changed from a ball into a bloom, a rough cylindrical mass of white hot iron, still dripping with cinder.

The custom of employing the flowering branches for decorative purposes on the 1st of May is of very early origin; but since the alteration in the calendar the tree has rarely been in full bloom in England before the second week of that month.

An iron framework is erected in the house, in which shrubs are planted and flowers cultivated to bloom in memory of the departed.

While flowers bloom throughout the year at Portland, frosts have occurred in every month of the year at Lakeview, in the Great Basin.

Lastly, rising in the Slieve Bloom or neighbouring mountains, the Suir, Nore and Barrow follow widely divergent courses to the south to unite in Waterford harbour.

Then generally the plant is allowed to grow away till bloom or blooming shoots are developed.

The Dogwood trees were in full bloom, their aromatic blossoms creating white blotches on the hills.

They bloom during the months of May and June, as well as later, and are always most welcome ornaments for the flower borders, and useful for cutting for decorative purposes.

The early 90s were characterized by matte lips and faces, whereas the new millennium brought in a bloom of luminous cheeks and shimmering lips.

The blossoms range from white to crimson and the shrub will often bloom from October to March.

Orlando Bloom - British-born Bloom, who rose to fame after starring in The Lord of the Rings, is afraid of pigs.

The young dark green stems have a lovely white wax on them like the bloom on a Grape.

Both require to be well established before they bloom freely.

When well placed the double pink makes a wide-spreading mass like the common Bramble, and gives from the middle of August till autumn an abundance of bloom, every flower being a rosette of delicate pink petals.

They are easily raised from seed, and profuse in effective bloom.

Bush Honeysuckle (Weigela) - Graceful and hardy flowering shrubs, summer-leafing, with showy clusters of bloom ranging from pure white to dark crimson.

They have long been deservedly popular, being elegant, quick in growth, and beautiful in bloom.

They should be top-dressed annually with good rich soil, and pruned, leaving the vigorous stems and the branches that yield the finest bloom.

Under those favourable conditions it forms a pretty evergreen bush in bloom nearly all the year.

The flowers are of the most vivid scarlet, and as they last a long time in bloom it well deserves care.

S. rupestris, a sparkling-looking white species, little more than 3 inches high when in bloom, is rather like a dwarf S. alpestris, but better worthy of a place.

Christmas Rose (Helleborus) - One of the most valuable classes of hardy perennials we have, as they flower in the open air when there is little else in bloom.

As soon as the seedlings are large enough they should be pricked off thickly into a shady border, in a light rich soil; the second year they should be transplanted to their permanent place, and in the third season most of them will bloom.

In southern gardens, especially near the sea, it grows 5 feet high, and is handsome for the several weeks it is in bloom.

Europe. They have, when in bloom, a very offensive odour.

Tom Thumb Dahlias - This is a very dwarf race, the plants forming little bushes, but they are not satisfactory, as they appear not to bloom with great freedom, whilst the growth does not retain its true dwarf character.

The plants usually bloom in August, and remain in perfection several weeks.

In light sandy soil of the rock garden it has never failed to bloom profusely.

For early flowering it should be sown in autumn, and again in March and April for later bloom.

They may be sown in autumn for early summer flowering, or from March to June for late summer and autumn bloom.

They flower about eight weeks after sowing, and remain in bloom a long time.

These species are of secondary importance in the flower garden, and like many other annuals, they suffer through being judged by spring-sown plants of short-lived bloom.