pasqueflower

pasque·flow·er  (pskflour)

n.

Any of several plants of the genus Anemone, especially A. patens, having large blue, purple, or white flowers, each producing many conspicuously plumed achenes.

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[Alteration (influenced by pasque, Easter, from their flowering in April) of obsolete passeflower, from French passefleur : passer, to pass; see pass + fleur, flower; see flower.]

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pasqueflower [ˈpɑːskˌflaʊə ˈpæsk-]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a purple-flowered herbaceous ranunculaceous plant, Anemone pulsatilla (or Pulsatilla vulgaris), of N and Central Europe and W Asia

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several related North American plants, such as A. patens Also called paschal flower pulsatilla

[from French passefleur, from passer to excel + fleur flower; changed to pasqueflower Easter flower, because it blooms at Easter]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pasqueflower - any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone pasque flower wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant genus Pulsatilla, Pulsatilla - includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers American pasqueflower, American pulsatilla, Anemone ludoviciana, blue tulip, Eastern pasque flower, lion's beard, prairie anemone, Pulsatilla patens, wild crocus - short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia Anemone occidentalis, Pulsatilla occidentalis, Western pasqueflower - of western North America Anemone pulsatilla, European pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris - European perennial having usually violet or white spring flowers