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double blossom

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noun

Plant Pathology.
  1. a disease of blackberries and dewberries, characterized by witches'-brooms and flower malformations, caused by a fungus, Cercosporella rubi.


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"We have had Japanese wedding celebrations conducted underneath the cascades of double blossom," she says.

From BBC • May 1, 2025

To what strange end hath some strange god made fair The double blossom of two fruitless flowers?

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Perhaps they had never seen the like before, these honorable barbarians; certainly nothing so perfect as the double blossom, of a delicacy and shade not to be surpassed.

From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Stokes, Katherine

And I pointed with my cane to the frail stalk, tipped by a double blossom.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole