Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Anemone, chiefly the wood-anemone, A. nemorosa: so called by translation of the classic name of an anemone or other plant anciently associated with the wind. The wind-loving reputation of this plant appears to have been conferred chiefly by the name.
- noun The marsh-gentian, Gentiana Pneumonanthe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See
anemone .
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- noun An early spring flowering species of the family
Ranunculaceae ; Anemone nemorosa.
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- noun any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
Etymologies
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Examples
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An anemone (pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee), sometimes called a "windflower" for reasons that should clear shortly, is a member of the buttercup family.
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The bright blue flowers of a windflower (Anemone blanda) pop out against the white leaves of a nearby lamium, which also is in bloom.
Growing Insecurity 2010
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She gave him her hand, light as a windflower in his, and as cold when he kissed it.
The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989
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The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
Graded Poetry: Seventh Year Various
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So, though he be as fragile as a windflower, he may assure himself,
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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Alfred Austin says, "With windflower honey are my tresses smoothed."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass.
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Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass.
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Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923
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Had she been a 'nowadays aunt' she might have thought that Mary was not unlike a windflower herself.
bilby commented on the word windflower
Other pathways lead to Somewhere,
But the one I love so well
Had no end and no beginning --
Just the beauty of the dell,
Just the windflowers and the lilies
Yellow striped as adder's tongue,
Seem to satisfy my pathway
As it winds their sweets among.
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 'The Path that leads to Nowhere'.
October 4, 2008