blossom
noun
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
blossomless
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a word derived from
blossom.
Example Sentences
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It is our garden, All black and blossomless this winter night, But we bring April with us, you and I; We set the whole world on the trail of spring.
From Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
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
What did it matter to them that the garden was neglected, the grass rank and uncut, the currant-bushes barren from neglect, the lilacs old and blossomless?
From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch
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
Pity and surety and peace most lowly Were the root and the stem and the bloom of the flower: And the light and the breath of the buds kept holy That maid’s else blossomless bower.
From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
