blossom
noun
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
unblossomed
-
a word derived from
blossom.
Example Sentences
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The babe begins a mere handful of germs; a bough of unblossomed buds.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis
This cannot be, Since reason and all mental gifts are thine; Within the lovely calyx sleeps the germ,— A flower as yet unblossomed.
From The Arctic Queen by Unknown
Now over the lip of the window sill, A rustle of silks, the lattice closes, No one has heard, the night is still, Save unblossomed buds of the startled roses.
From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey
Night after night with a blemish of day Unblown and unblossomed has withered away; Come another night, come a new night, say Will you pluck me apart?
From Amores Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Flowered, he will assist at love-making, wreathed in my lady's nut-brown hair; young and callow and unblossomed, he goes into the boiling pot and delivers the word of his sovereign mistress.
From The Four Million by O. Henry
