Crossword clues for globeflower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Globeflower \Globe"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Trollius ( T. Europ[ae]us), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.
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The American plant Trollius laxus.
Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Trollius europaeus species noshow=1), a plant with globe-shaped flowers. 2 (taxlink Trollius laxus species noshow=1), a similar American plant. 3 More generally, any plant of the genus (taxlink Trollius genus noshow=1).
WordNet
n. any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers [syn: globe flower]
Usage examples of "globeflower".
Yoshihira looked about him, at the tassels of wistaria which hung from the eaves of the shrine, at the branches of the surrounding trees and the golden globeflowers fringing the edge of the water.
If you leaned on the rail and gazed across the pond you saw a waterfall plunging out of a densely wooded hill, its waters flowing under double globeflowers in the spring or begonias in autumn, emerging as a rippling stream for a little way, and then dropping into the pond.
But when I was in the second grade -- in the spring, when the double globeflowers at the mouth of the waterfall were in full bloom -- I came home from school one day and was startled to hear the sound of a koto from the inner room.
I sipped my tea and looked at the strangely random garden with its funny mix of yellow globeflowers and pink azaleas and tall, green nandins.