windflower

American  

[wind-flou-er] / ˈwɪndˌflaʊ ər /

noun

1. any plant belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having divided leaves and showy, solitary flowers.

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windflower British  

/ ˈwɪndˌflaʊə /

noun

1. any of various anemone plants, such as the wood anemone

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Etymology

Origin of windflower

1545–55; translation of Greek amemṓnē anemone; wind ¹, flower

Example Sentences

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

"If she doesn't she may have to repeat Bryant's 'Death of the Flowers':— 'The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.'"

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

Hers was not the forced exotic bloom of fashionable life; but rather one of the native blossoms of her New England home, having all the delicacy and at the same time hardiness of the windflower.

From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson

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.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor