windflower
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of windflower
1545–55; translation of Greek amemṓnē anemone; see wind 1, flower
Example Sentences
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The 2- to 3-inch blooms float above beds and borders and sway in the slightest breeze, giving rise to their other common name: windflower.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2021
Every year the Greek girls mourned for him and every year they rejoiced when his flower, the blood-red anemone, the windflower, was seen blooming again.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In the spring, when the leaves all start, The crocus thrills at its glowing heart, The windflower opens its tinted cup, While the sap mounts merrily up and up.
From The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People by Various
This is the tomboy month of all the year, March, who comes shouting o'er the winter hills, Waking the world with laughter, as she wills, Or wild halloos, a windflower in her ear.
From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
The tang of ice was in the air; but in the valleys was all the gorgeous bloom of midsummer—the gaudy painter's brush, the shy harebell, the tasselled windflower, and a few belated mountain roses.
From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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