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Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
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windflower
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Wikipedia
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi?r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.] A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An early spring flowering species of the family Ranunculaceae, (taxlink Anemone nemorosa species noshow=1).
Usage examples of windflower.
If, then, it is planted in warm quarters, it may be expected to yield its desirable flowers in average quantity compared with other Windflowers, and in such proportion will its roots increase.
Windflower lifted and carried the grates slowly to the valve and leaned them beside it.
Windflower set her roots firmly in the sediment below and twined her smaller upper tendrils into the grates, anchoring the metal upright.
But Sickh and Windflower were true -- the relay race hypothesis is valid, Heem, I'm sure of it.
But Sickh and Windflower were true-the relay race hypothesis is valid, Heem, I'm sure of it.
March had come in more lamb than lion, there were windflowers in the woods, and the first primroses, unburned by frost, undashed and unmired by further rain, were just opening.
Eddan went first, using his staff to probe for windflowers in the dark air, wary as those who walked the wilds of Kesrith dus-less had to be.
There were windflowers and burrowers, and serpents that hid in the rocks.
Kagami stood by the open T6-screen and watched Chokki walk briskly down the manicured path, past spacious rock gardens and neatly calendared emperor tulips and Agean windflowers, to his dart.
In this brief mountain spring, the new grass was spangled with pink and yellow and white, the windflowers and snowflowers .