A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Used in a Sentence
blooms
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for blooms.
Editorial note
In a capital rich environment, you teach people to be capitalists, and let a million independent experiments blooms.
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Quick take
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of blooms gathered in one view.
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for blooms.
noun
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
noun
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
noun
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
noun
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
Example sentences
In a capital rich environment, you teach people to be capitalists, and let a million independent experiments blooms.
It's like trying to co-exist on a lake with someone that keeps deliberately causing giant algal blooms.
And it looks like the evidence for run off causing algal blooms in the Great Lakes is pretty convincing.
They are a significant source of multiple forms of pollution in the states and contribute to some nasty algae blooms.
All it takes is one farmer using a bit too much fertilizer to form massive algae blooms in a nearby lake.
Aside from the detrimental effects on local species it also means that algae and weed blooms are common and it's not uncommon for harbors to be choked with weeds by August.
Ozone holes and CFC levels and ocean acidity and fish stocks and algal blooms and ground water levels and contamination and whatever else.
So is seasonal blooms of methane on a planet like Mars.
The affinity of stalks for Fe in association with iron-phosphorus biogeochemistry suggest a resolution to the paradox of algal blooms in oliogotrophic streams and rivers.
A new crop of ISPs all have access to the network at regulated rates, people get a choice of ISP, competition blooms in the desert.
And the recolonization process once UV levels drop enough to make it possible will result in some really weird blooms, and algae blooms lead to busts so the oscillations will likely be pretty exciting after the initial crash.
You see this in nature where algae blooms for example will explode in rivers killing all other life until they themselves can't survive and they all die.
Quote examples
In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", Michael Pollan mentions a type of mushroom that blooms only after a forest fire.
This periphytic alga forms large “blooms” in temperate streams, presenting a counterintuitive result: the blooms occur primarily in oligotrophic streams and rivers, where phosphorus (P) availability typically limits primary production.
S, is anyone else reminded of the "Spice blooms" from Dune?
Proper noun examples
Strangest Weather On Earth: Arctic Blooms!
The real downside is that if did it at the scale necessary to have an impact, you're also going to be creating HABs (Harmful Algal Blooms) that could potentially change the Earth's climate themselves.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use blooms in a sentence?
In a capital rich environment, you teach people to be capitalists, and let a million independent experiments blooms.
What does blooms mean?
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
What part of speech is blooms?
blooms is commonly used as noun.