Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dwarfspring-flowering herbs, of the natural order Ranun-culaceæ, allied to Helleborus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of plants of the buttercup family including the
winter aconite ,Eranthis hyemalis .
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- noun winter aconite
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Examples
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Among the minor bulbs, safe choices are snowdrops (Galanthus); winter aconite (Eranthis); Scilla, Muscari, Chionodoxa and Hyacinthoides hispanica.
The Brightest Bulbs Lucy Gilmour 2011
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Eranthis and snowdrops hid away, closed and frozen beneath the white, and then when the final layer was gone for good, they pushed themselves up to signal renewal and spring flush among the few blades of grass that had stayed the winter out in Tæring.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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Eranthis and snowdrops hid away, closed and frozen beneath the white, and then when the final layer was gone for good, they pushed themselves up to signal renewal and spring flush among the few blades of grass that had stayed the winter out in Tæring.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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Eranthis and snowdrops hid away, closed and frozen beneath the white, and then when the final layer was gone for good, they pushed themselves up to signal renewal and spring flush among the few blades of grass that had stayed the winter out in Tæring.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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_Epimedium_, _Viola_, &c., and as an exceptional occurrence I have seen them in _Ranunculus repens_, while in _Eranthis hyemalis_ transitions may frequently be seen between the flat outer segments of the perianth and the tubular petals.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Eranthis hyemalis_, wherein the petals (nectaries) are tubular and the sepals flat, I have met with numerous instances of transition from the one form to the other, as shown in fig. 9, p. 24.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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English form of its Greek and Latin name, but this name is now seldom used, being, by a curious perversion, solely given to the pretty little early-flowering Winter Aconite (_Eranthis hyemalis_), which is not a true Aconite, though closely allied; it then got the name of
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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