1. A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health; SYN. blush, flush, rosiness.
2. The best time of youth; SYN. bloom of youth.
Metallurgy, bar of puddled iron.
Whitish powdery or waxlike coating over the surface of certain fruits that easily rubs off when handled. It often contains yeasts that live on the sugars in the fruit. The term bloom is also used to describe a rapid increase in number of certain species of algae found in lakes, ponds, and oceans.
Such blooms may be natural but are often the result of nitrate pollution, in which artificial fertilizers, applied to surrounding fields, leach out into the waterways. This type of bloom can lead to the death of almost every other organism in the water; because light cannot penetrate the algal growth, the plants beneath can no longer photosynthesize and therefore do not release oxygen into the water. Only those organisms that are adapted to very low levels of oxygen survive.

ETYM ME blom.
To produce or yield flowers; SYN. blossom, flower.

(1931-) English actress. Her career has stretched over four decades. She began her film career in Chaplin’s Limelight 1952 and continued with such films as Richard III 1956 and The Brothers Karamazov 1958. Her more recent films have included supporting roles in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 and Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors 1990.
Her television appearances include Brideshead Revisited 1980.