I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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This type of loving commitment can bring a marriage through the rough times and into full blossom again.
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A weekend in May and the fields full of blossom and the twins a little short of their third birthday.
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He looks out of his window and sees amidst his winter garden one tree in full blossom .
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Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest, full of rhododendron blossom , pine scents and birdsong.
■ NOUN
apple
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The scent of apple blossom was plain enough.
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In the spring, the rolling hills around Yakima Valley turn snow white with cherry and apple blossoms .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come into leaf/flower/blossom
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In the garden of the little farm, fruit trees are coming into flower, and others are beginning to leaf.
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The cherry tree was coming into blossom, encouraged by the unseasonably warm sunshine.
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When planted through beds of hybrid tea or floribunda rosea they add interest before the roses come into flower.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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orange blossom
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here we chose a cherry with pale pink spring blossom , a welcome sight early in the year.
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It was springtime and the slopes were ablaze with almond blossom , the vivid green terraces edged with blue irises.
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Lincoln squatted beside a hibiscus with three blossoms.
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Occasionally there were small, isolated villages, looking like white blossom carelessly tossed on the vast landscape.
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Shivers like blossoms fell upon her incorporeal form, silver rain and bright bubbles of light.
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The blossoms also signify the feminine characteristics of softness, mildness and peacefulness.
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The President, who drinks very little alcohol, sipped his favorite cocktail, a weak orange blossom .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pete has really blossomed in his new school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in blossoming, Jessie unknowingly tears open a decades-old secret that could cost her her life.
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Chomsky places faith in special neural mechanisms blossoming in the brain.
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He is growing, blossoming, learning about this leadership role and still has lessons to absorb.
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Like a flower he blossoms and then withers; like a shadow he flees and never stays.
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The doubts maturing in Coleridge's own mind concerning events that summer blossomed alarmingly at the end of September.
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Trees and bushes have blossomed with new life at the dawn of a new season.
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Without stage drama, her eccentricity blossomed, and drew Jack and Rob into it.