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windflower

NOUN
  1. any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves

How To Use windflower In A Sentence

  • Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • An anemone (pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee), sometimes called a "windflower" for reasons that should clear shortly, is a member of the buttercup family. Rockford Register Star Home RSS
  • Dutch crocuses are followed by brilliant blue Greek windflower, ‘King Alfred’ daffodils, and orange, red, and yellow tulips.
  • The bright blue flowers of a windflower (Anemone blanda) pop out against the white leaves of a nearby lamium, which also is in bloom. Growing Insecurity
  • The bright blue flowers of a windflower (Anemone blanda) pop out against the white leaves of a nearby lamium, which also is in bloom. Growing Insecurity
  • Had she been a 'nowadays aunt' she might have thought that Mary was not unlike a windflower herself. A Book of Quaker Saints
  • It is also known as the windflower and zephyr flower.
  • Although crocuses and windflowers are tiny, they are brave little imps and often the first heralds of spring.
  • So, though he be as fragile as a windflower, he may assure himself, The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
  • She gave him her hand, light as a windflower in his, and as cold when he kissed it. The Potter's Field
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