Difference between Flower and Bloom

What is the difference between Flower and Bloom?

Flower as a verb is to put forth blooms. while Bloom as a verb is to cause to blossom; to make flourish.

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: Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

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: We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

We hope you now know whether to use Flower or Bloom in your sentence.

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