What's the difference between blossom and flower?

Blossom


Definition:

  • (n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
  • (n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
  • (n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
  • (n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
  • (n.) To flourish and prosper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
  • (2) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
  • (3) Time, he reasoned, to let a new and younger leadership “blossom”.
  • (4) The aim will be to try and keep market interest rate expectations low to allow the nascent recovery to blossom into something stronger and more sustainable," Wood said.
  • (5) Bibi-watchers are focused now on how the Israeli leader will play the next six months, in which the Geneva agreement will either blossom into a lasting accord or break apart.
  • (6) In your magazine, there was a beautifully written article by Dan Pearson on spring blossom, observed at a time of great personal stress.
  • (7) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
  • (8) That moment, however, before the blossom breaks, is perhaps the most wondrous.
  • (9) On Saturdays, the farmers market blossoms in the parking lot outside with producers and “street fooders”.
  • (10) During that summer of 1956, Khrushchev's thaw blossomed and Muscovites relaxed a little more.
  • (11) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
  • (12) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
  • (13) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
  • (14) Below my window in Ross, when I'm working in Ross, for example, there at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early.
  • (15) He rises early to paint nature in all her wild exuberance … (the blossom) is as if a thick white cream had been poured over everything … just an intense visual pleasure."
  • (16) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
  • (17) Innovations in drug delivery systems and skyrocketing health care costs have fostered the growth of home health care which has blossomed into a $2.8 billion industry.
  • (18) Their brains are unable to make the neural connections that they should; their cognitive ability does not blossom.
  • (19) But even as error rates stayed stable, student essays have blossomed in size and complexity.
  • (20) Under Pep Guardiola, the under-21 international has blossomed into a midfield leader and played as a makeshift centre-back in impressive fashion.

Flower


Definition:

  • (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
  • (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
  • (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
  • (n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
  • (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
  • (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
  • (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
  • (n.) Menstrual discharges.
  • (v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
  • (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.
  • (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
  • (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
  • (v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (2) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
  • (3) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (4) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
  • (5) I believe Flower when he promises he would not repeat his mistake.
  • (6) In these tissues, the viral DNA replicated at the site of inoculation and was transported first to the roots, then to the shoot apex and to the neighboring leaves and the flowers.
  • (7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (8) "They were the real flowers in the show - boys who I picked up in the park because they looked right."
  • (9) Parietaria judaica (Pellitory-of-the-Wall) is native to the U.K., flowering from June to September, but is not usually considered to be of any clinical importance by U.K. allergists.
  • (10) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
  • (11) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
  • (12) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
  • (13) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
  • (14) It is that rare flower, a positive environmental story.
  • (15) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (16) This study documents a previously unrecognized potential source of occupational pesticide exposure and suggests that safety standards should be set for residue levels on cut flowers.
  • (17) We suggest that both vertical transmission of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons within plant lineages and horizontal transmission between different species have played roles in the evolution of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in flowering plants.
  • (18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
  • (19) The carcinogenic activity of petasitenine, a new pyrrolizidine alkaloid isolated from young flower stalk of Petasites japonicus, was studied in ACI rats.
  • (20) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).