ABLOW

Etymology 1

Adjective

ablow (not comparable)

(obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.

(dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.

Usage notes

• Like most adjectives formed from this sense of a-, ablow never serves as an attributive premodifier; one can say “the flowers were ablow”, “ablow, the flowers […] ”, and even “ […] the flowers ablow […] ”, but not *“ […] the ablow flowers”.

Etymology 2

Preposition

ablow

(Scotland) Below.

Anagrams

• blaow, wobla

Source: Wiktionary



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23 December 2024

QUANDONG

(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit


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