blossom

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Apple blossoms
苹果花

源自中古英語 blosme,源自古英語 blostmblostma,源自原始日耳曼語 *blōsmaz(对比西弗里斯蘭語 blossem荷蘭語 bloesem),*blōstaz(对比德語 Blust)的加长形式,源自原始印歐語 *bʰleh₃-s- (),源自*bʰleh₃- (绽,盛开)。同源词有阿爾巴尼亞語 bleron (绽放,繁盛)拉丁語 flōs ()Flōra (植物之神)。详见blow的词源4。

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blossom (可數 不可數, 複數 blossoms)

  1. 尤指果树结果前盛开的花(集合名詞) (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. (比喻義) 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 編, The Doctor, &c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC; new版, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, →OCLC頁號 358,列號 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 (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 blossoms, 現在分詞 blossoming, 一般過去時及過去分詞 blossomed)

  1. (不及物) 盛开绽放
  2. (不及物) 欣欣向荣

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blossom

  1. blosme的另一種寫法