apple blossom
- noun
- /ˈæpəl ˈblɑsəm/
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flor de manzano
- There's no lack of apple blossoms and trees and flowers and all those things.
There's no lack of apple blossoms and trees and flowers and all those things.
- There's no lack of apple blossoms and trees and flowers and all those things.
Examples
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I may be turning toward the branch of apple blossom bearing its burden of the raindrops in an even more buoyant aspect than the night before.
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On cold spring nights when frost is imminent, growers run irrigation sprinklers until sheaths of ice coat the apple blossoms.
Fiction book (1999) -
These two right here are called Apple Blossom, absolutely gorgeous, pink and white.
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And the rest of our geraniums here, you can see these are the apple blossom variety right here.
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They're apple blossoms if you please from John's heavenly orchard of apple trees.
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In spring (usually late May), the valley is resplendent with apple blossoms, and in autumn, the "Look-off" is a great place to see the fall colors.
Academic text (1999) -
In spring, the garden is alive with the beautiful apple blossoms, attracting many bees.
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The gentle breeze carried the sweet scent of apple blossoms throughout the orchard.
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Pictures of the white and pink apple blossoms in full bloom adorned her scrapbook.
Synonyms
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A flower or a group of flowers on a tree
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A flower on a plant or the time when a plant makes flowers
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'apple' + 'blossom' yields the flowers of an apple tree, and the color sense ('a pale pink resembling the flowers') is a direct, easily imagined extension of that literal referent. Such flower-to-color naming is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Apple blossom comes from the simple image of an apple blossom on a tree. In spring the tree makes white or pink flowers before the fruit grows, so the phrase means the 'flower' of the apple tree.