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windflower
n.
anemone, cup-shaped flower in various colors (white, pink, red, or purple)
Windflower
Windflower may refer to:
- Anemone nemorosa, a species of flowering plant
- Anemone, a genus of flowering plants
- The flower Adonis turns into after having been torn to pieces by a boar in Ovid's 'Venus and Adonis' and in the various translations of that story by Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, etc.
- Pulsatilla patens, also called Anemone patens, a poisonous plant
- Sir Edward Elgar's private name for Alice Stuart-Wortley, his close friend and correspondent.
- Windflowers, a song written by Seals and Crofts.
- Windflowers, a painting of John William Waterhouse.
- Windflower, a novel by Gabrielle Roy.
- Windflower, a novel written by Nick Bantock.
windflower
Noun
1. any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
(synonym) anemone
(hypernym) flower
(hyponym) Alpine anemone, mountain anemone, Anemone tetonensis
(member-holonym) genus Anemone
Windflower
(n.)
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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