Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts.

synonyms: bloom, flower.

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.    timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371.    bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan; blow, blowth^†; floret^†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.    foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^†; spray etc. 51; leaf.    flower, blossom, bine^†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.    ... show more

Dutch: bloei, bloesem, bloem, bloemetje, bloempje, blom
Polish: kwiat

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity.

synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime.

Dutch: bloeitijd, hoogtijdagen, bloeiperiode
Polish: szczyt

Produce or yield flowers.

synonyms: bloom, flower.

Roget 734: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous etc. adj.; drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.    rise in the world, get on in the world; work one's way, make one's way; look up; lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's fortune, feather one's nest, make one's pile.    flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten.    keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run of luck; have the good fortune etc. n.. to; take a favorable turn; live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover.    ... show more

Dutch: uitgroeien

Develop or come to a promising stage:
— Youth blossomed into maturity.

synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold.