blossom

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A flower or cluster of flowers.
2. n. The condition or time of flowering: peach trees in blossom.
3. n. A period or condition of maximum development. See Synonyms at bloom¹.
4. v. To come into flower; bloom.
5. v. To develop; flourish: The child blossomed into a beauty.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The flower of a plant, usually more or less conspicuous from the colored leaflets which form it and which are generally of more delicate texture than the leaves of the plant. It is a general term, applicable to the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages, of every species of tree or plant.
2. n. The state of flowering or bearing flowers; bloom: as, the apple-tree is in blossom.
3. n. Any person, thing, state, or condition likened to a blossom or to the bloom of a plant.
4. n. A color consisting of a white ground mingled evenly with sorrel and bay, occurring in the coats of some horses.
5. n. The outcrop of a coal-seam, usually consisting of decomposed shale mixed with coaly matter; also, sometimes, the appearance about the outcrop of any mineral lode in which oxidizable ores occur.
6. To put forth blossoms or flowers; bloom; blow; flower: often used figuratively.

Wiktionary

1. n. A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.
2. n. The state or season of producing such flowers.
3. v. To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.
4. v. To begin to thrive or flourish.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively.
2. n. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
3. n. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
4. v. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
5. v. To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type.
6. v. to appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. develop or come to a promising stage
2. n. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
3. n. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
4. v. produce or yield flowers