An event in which a colony of plants, algae, or bacteria becomes so widespread in a body of water that it draws enough oxygen out of the water to kill other inhabitants of that ecosystem, and eventually becomes unable to sustain itself.

Alternative form of Bloom's syndrome

A rare genetic disease characterized by stunted growth, predisposition to the development of cancer, and genomic instability.

A dense spread of algae on the surface of water.

(UK, slang, euphemistic) blooming hell.

(UK, slang, blasphemous) Synonym of bloody hell

Hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; hydrozincite.

An onion cut to resemble a flower, battered and deep-fried as an appetizer.

plural of Bloom filter

(computing theory) A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.