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windflower

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wind·flow·er  (wndflour)
n.
See anemone.
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Noun1.windflowerwindflower - any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
anemone
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
genus Anemone - perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions
Alpine anemone, Anemone tetonensis, mountain anemone - silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers
Anemone Canadensis, Canada anemone - common summer-flowering woodland herb of Labrador to Colorado
Anemone cylindrica, thimbleweed - a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles
Anemone nemorosa, wood anemone - European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands
Anemone quinquefolia, snowdrop, wood anemone - common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers
Anemone sylvestris, snowdrop anemone, snowdrop windflower - Eurasian herb with solitary nodding fragrant white flowers


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The whole of this radiant Easter day I have spent out of doors, sitting at first among the windflowers and celandines, and then, later, walking with the babies to the Hirschwald, to see what the spring had been doing there; and the afternoon was so hot that we lay a long time on the turf, blinking up through the leafless branches of the silver birches at the soft, fat little white clouds floating motionless in the blue.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
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