blossom
noun
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
blossomless
-
a word derived from
blossom.
Example Sentences
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That he gathered two harvests a year, spring and autumn each yielding one, while the cold winter and the parched and blossomless summer equally suspended the profitable labor of his winged workmen.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
From the fertile fields and miles of flowers the train passed to bare, blossomless earth; from rich soil to rocks; from Kansas to Colorado.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
For thine have life, while many above thine head Piled by the wind lie blossomless and dead.
From Studies in Song by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Soft blossomless frondage And foliage that gleams As to prisoners in bondage The light of their dreams, The desire of a dawn unbeholden, with hope on the wings of its beams.
From Studies in Song by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But the wild asters and the long convolvulus vines were choking the blossomless pinks and the sweet-williams and the few shy English flowers that were left.
From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
