Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of composite plants of the tribe Inuloideæ and subtribe Gnaphalieæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of plants including the edelweiss (
Leontopodium alpinum ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edelweiss
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It is called by botanists the _Gnaphalium leontopodium_, but by the Swiss
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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It is called by botanists the _Gnaphalium leontopodium_, but by the Swiss _Edelweisse_, which signifies _Noble
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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