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Apple blossoms
苹果花

源自中古英语 blosme,源自古英语 blostmblostma,源自原始日耳曼语 *blōsmaz(对比西弗里斯兰语 blossem荷兰语 bloesem),*blōstaz(对比德语 Blust)的加长形式,源自原始印欧语 *bʰleh₃-s- (),源自*bʰleh₃- (绽,盛开)。同源词有阿尔巴尼亚语 bleron (绽放,繁盛)拉丁语 flōs ()Flōra (植物之神)。详见blow的词源4。

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blossom (可数 不可数,复数 blossoms)

  1. 尤指果树结果前盛开的花(集合名词) (这种花的)花簇
    The blossom has come early this year.
    今年开花早。
  2. 开花
    The orchard is in blossom.
    果园迎来了开花期
  3. (比喻义) 欣欣向荣景象
  4. 混杂栗色棕色白色 指马的毛色
    • 1834–1847, Robert Southey, “A Feeble Attempt to Describe the Physical and Moral Qualities of Nobs”, 出自 John Wood Warter 编, The Doctor, &c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC; new版, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, →OCLC页号 358,列号 2:
      For colour he [Nobs, a horse] was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt sorrel, starling-colour, tyger-colour, wolf-colour, deer-colour, cream-colour, white, grey, or black. Neither was he green, like the horse which the Emperor [Septimus] Severus took from the Parthians, [...]
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blossom (第三人称单数简单现在时 blossoms,现在分词 blossoming,一般过去时及过去分词 blossomed)

  1. (不及物) 盛开绽放
  2. (不及物) 欣欣向荣
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    • 1961 1月 30, Rico Lebrun, “New Haven · Capri · Rome (1958–1960) [To David Lebrun from Los Angeles, January 30, 1961]”, 出自 In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrun, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, Publisher, 出版于 2000, →ISBN页号 66:
      Since I came back from Pomona I have done many drawings to illustrate the Inferno of Dante [Alighieri] and I find my old Italian love blossoming all over again for this greatest of all master poets, bar none.
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blossom

  1. blosme的另一种写法