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windflower

American

[wind-flau-er] / ˈwɪndˌflaʊ ər /

noun

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

windflower British

/ ˈwɪndˌflaʊə /

noun

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; see wind ¹, flower

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windflower

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

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 Edward Payson Roe

She was very dainty and lovely, was Caroline Darrah Brown, with the loveliness of a windflower and young with the innocent youngness of an April day.

From Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess

Is it because the windflower apes The beauty that was once her brow, That the white memory of it shapes The April now?

From Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

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