blossom
noun
the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
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Babes, whom unportion'd of sweet life, unblossoming buds, One black day carried off and chokt in dusty corruption.—
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges