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Flower that's a symbol of purity
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edelweiss
Alternative clues for the word edelweiss
- Flower I planted in weedless ground
- Song that ends "Bless my homeland forever"
- ''The Sound of Music'' song
- Flower lies in tangles with weeds
- Plant lies tangled with weeds
- Alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Edelweiss " is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music . It is named after the edelweiss , a white flower found high in the Alps ( Leontopodium alpinum ) . It was created for the 1959 Broadway production of The Sound ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edelweiss \E"del*weiss\, n. [G., fr. edel noble + weiss white.] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant ( Leontopodium alpinum ), growing at high elevations in the Alps. It is the national flower of Austria.
Usage examples of edelweiss.
Of the divey bars and restaurants here, only one, the Edelweiss Cafe, advertised a public telephone.
Martin Edelweiss from a childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, through a meandering flight to Switzerland after the revolution, to his university days at Cambridge.
Martin Edelweiss is conditioned to desire is inevitably contradictory.
The text does not seek to resolve the web of contradictions in which Martin Edelweiss finds himself enmeshed.
Jersey trust company which is owned by a Swiss outfit called the Edelweiss Bank.
He lives in Sark and owns a hotel there, and the Edelweiss outfit always use him when they need a Sark resident to be a settlor or a director or anything like that.
London solicitors for the Edelweiss group, so she and Clementine have a good deal to do with each other.
The burdens of the pack-mules and the horns of the cows were decked with the Edelweiss and the Alpine rose.
There were no bellflowers, rampions, worts, groundsels, daisies, lilies, saxifrages, pinks, monkshoods, or beautiful little edelweiss to ease the bitter cold monotony of the freezing fields of winter.
More plants bloomed as the spring months passed, first early ones like promise-of-spring and snow liverwort, then later ones such as phlox and heather, then saxifrage and Tibetan rhubarb, moss campion and alpine nailwort, cornflowers and edelweiss, on and on until every patch of green carpet in the rocky palm of the basin was touched with brilliant dots of cyanic blue, dark pink, yellow, white, each color waving in a layer at the characteristic height of the plant holding it, all of them glowing in the dusk like drips of light, welling out into the world from nowhere—a pointillist Mars, the ribbiness of the seamed basin etched in the air by this scree of color.
More plants bloomed as the spring months passed, first early ones like promise-of-spring and snow liverwort, then later ones such as phlox and heather, then saxifrage and Tibetan rhubarb, moss campion and alpine nailwort, cornflowers and edelweiss, on and on until every patch of green carpet in the rocky palm of the basin was touched with brilliant dots of cyanic blue, dark pink, yellow, white, each color waving in a layer at the characteristic height of the plant holding it, all of them glowing in the dusk like drips of light, welling out into the world from nowhere-a pointillist Mars, the ribbiness of the seamed basin etched in the air by this scree of color.
There ere no bellflowers, rampions, worts, groundsels, daisies, lilies, saxi aees, pinks, monkshoods, or beautiful little edelweiss to ease the fcter cold monotony of the freezing fields of winter.