Meanings
verboverbloom (third-person singular simple present overblooms, present participle overblooming, simple past and past participle overbloomed)
present singular third person overblooms · participle present overblooming · participle past overbloomed · past overbloomed
- biologyTo produce an excessive amount of flowers or algae.
Coupled with sewage, the unnatural intensity of these nutrients makes the algae in the bay overbloom, and too much algae in turn blocks sunlight.
2004, Robert P. Marzec, The Mid-Atlantic Region, page 83
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