What's the difference between blossom and gillyflower?
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.
Gillyflower
Definition:
(n.) A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
(n.) A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.