2. Verb. (third-person singular of blossom) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blossoms
1. blossom [v] - See also: blossom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blossoms
Literary usage of Blossoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"The flowers were of the old-fashioned single kinds, small blossoms, but hundreds of
... A number of others soon followed, flying about among the blossoms, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"The blossoms of the common asparagus of our gardens show by their structure ...
The staminate blossoms have rudimentary pistils and the pistillate blossoms ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1915)
"Cherry-blossoms! [Places box on tea-stand, kneels, and rapturously inhales perfume.
... My pink and white cherry-blossoms are better than a letter, ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"But even there may bloom for thee The blossoms childhood loved to see; And in
the cinders of thy toil, God's fairest flowers be. ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"Mr. Whittier. in calling this collection of his latest poems " Hazel blossoms,"
like Mr. Longfellow in naming his last volume " Aftermath," adverts ..."
6. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"In the table below is a statement of the facts for this set 01 twelve plants
closely comparable with that for the reciprocal row : A Study of the blossoms ..."