Bloom
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to blossom; to make flourish. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. Flowers, collectively. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. (Knight.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Example sentence: I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
Flower
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put forth blooms.To reach a state of full development or great achievement.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), typically including sepals, petals, stamens, and ovaries; often conspicuously colourful.The vulva, especially the labia majora.An inflorescence that resembles a flower, but actually contains many small florets, such as a sunflower.A plant that bears flowers.Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.The best examples or representatives of a group.The best state of things; the prime.
Example sentence: I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.