Dictionary Entry

blooms

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/bluːmz/Used In Literature ↓

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

In a Sentence

“In spring, the cherry trees burst into pink blooms that attract many visitors.”

Origin

From Old English blōma, related to blōwan “to bloom.”

Common Phrases

. bloomsblooms algalblooms phytoplanktonblooms whiteblooms yellow

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Poetry examples for “blooms”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Beauty, frail flower that every season fears,
Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years.
Thus Churchill's race shall other hearts surprise,

The garden's hope, and its expected shade.
Here orange-trees with blooms and pendants shine,
And vernal honours to their autumn join;

Pale beds of blowing rushes
Where no leaf blooms or blushes
Save this whereout she crushes

The weeds about him, but the land-winds blow,
And in the sky there blooms the sun of May.

When most of dead’ning time complain,
The myrtle blooms upon my brow,
Its odour quickens all my brain.

When you should see her beauty, gay
And pure as apple-blooms, that show
Outside a blush and inside snow,

The sunrise blooms and withers on the hill
Like any hillflower; and the noblest troth

An hour how slow to come, how quickly past,
Which blooms and fades, and only leaves at last,
Faint as shed flowers, the attenuated dream.

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,--
The finger-points look through the rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms

As if it felt the sun;
Knowing all things by their blooms,
Not their roots, yea, sun and sky