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with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.

To blossom again.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.

Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

rida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms. -- Cabbage tree, Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. -- Cabbage wor…

s plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.