The delicate pink or white flower that grows on apple trees in spring, producing the fruit after pollination.
Compound of apple + blossom. Blossom comes from Old English blostm, related to bloom. Apple comes from Old English æppel.
Apple blossoms appear for just a few weeks in spring, and they're so culturally important that entire festivals celebrate them—yet the flowers themselves were considered so sacred in some medieval traditions that picking them was believed to stop the tree from bearing fruit.
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