a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
the bloom on a plum
a full, bright sound in a recording
the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings
produce flowers; be in flower
a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed
coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface
a mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace
make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom