wood anemone

American  

noun

1. any of several anemones, especially Anemone nemorosa, of the Old World, or A. quinquefolia, of the U.S.

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wood anemone British  

noun

1. Also called: windflower.  any of several woodland anemone plants, esp Anemone quinquefolia of E North America and A. nemorosa of Europe, having finely divided leaves and solitary white flowers

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Etymology

Origin of wood anemone

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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wood anemone

For May there are the dog-tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

While I have numbered bloodroot among May flowers, it often does appear in April, and before the wood anemone.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

No flowers could he see, but once or twice a wood anemone, and now and then a tiny grove of wood-sorrel.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

The delicate blossoms of the wood anemone might at first be confounded with those of the toothwort by the careless observer, but a moment's reflection will quickly distinguish them.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands than the blossom of the wood anemone.

From The Lilac Fairy Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)