Blooms Word Meaning

Middle English: from Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, blómi ‘prosperity’, blómar ‘flowers’

a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

flower

• an exotic bloom

a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems

delicate deposit on fruits etc.

• the bloom on a plum

a full, bright sound in a recording

full bright sound

• the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings

produce flowers; be in flower

be in bloom

• a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed

coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.

coat lens