Definition of "abloom" []

• Being in bloom; flowering. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "While spring is abloom outdoors, some designers looked inside for ideas for the season's collections."
• "A "living roof," a roof planted like a garden, was recently abloom with yellow flowers."
• "Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk."