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
She recoiled from him with a bound, and trembling like a windflower indeed, her large blue eyes dilating at the intruder with a dismay beyond words.
From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson
Only one starry white windflower, clasped tight in her fingers through the long night hours, gradually drooped and died.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
When sweet wild April Dipped down the dale, Pale cuckoopint brightened, And windflower trail, And white-thorn, the wood-bride, In virginal veil.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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