blossom

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A flower or cluster of flowers.
• noun The condition or time of flowering.
• noun A condition or period of maximum development. synonym: bloom.
• intransitive verb To come into flower; bloom.
• intransitive verb To develop; flourish.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To put forth blossoms or flowers; bloom; blow; flower: often used figuratively.
• noun 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.
• noun The state of flowering or bearing flowers; bloom: as, the apple-tree is in blossom.
• noun Any person, thing, state, or condition likened to a blossom or to the bloom of a plant.
• noun A color consisting of a white ground mingled evenly with sorrel and bay, occurring in the coats of some horses.
• noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.
• noun The state or season of producing such flowers.
• verb intransitive To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.
• verb intransitive To begin to thrive or flourish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb develop or come to a promising stage
• noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
• noun reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
• verb produce or yield flowers