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  1. Whitish powdery or wax-like coating over the
  2. surface of certain fruits that easily rubs
  3. off when handled. It often contains yeasts
  4. which live on the sugars in the fruit. The
  5. term bloom is also used to describe a rapid
  6. increase in number of certain species of
  7. algae found in lakes and ponds.
  8.