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Windflower

noun

Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves. Synonym: anemone.

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"Windflower" Quotes from Famous Books

... Crouching there in the scented air, beneath the large, mild stars, she tried to think of Virginia and the coming war, but at the end of every avenue she came upon a morning hour. Perhaps it would be in the flower garden, perhaps in the summer-house, perhaps in the plantation woods where the windflower and the Judas tree were in bloom. Her heart was hopeful. So lifted and swept was the world to-night, so ready for great things, that her great thing also ought to happen, her rose of happiness ought to bloom. "After ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

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... rose[flowers: list], lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus[ISA:herb@flowering], rhododendron, windflower. pleasurableness &c 829. beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c. 847; calisthenics|!. [person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk [of men]. V. be beautiful &c. adj.; shine, beam, bloom; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

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Words linked to "Windflower" : Anemone nemorosa, Anemone sylvestris, wood anemone, Anemone quinquefolia, snowdrop, Anemone cylindrica, snowdrop windflower, Canada anemone, thimbleweed, Anemone Canadensis, flower, genus Anemone, Alpine anemone, mountain anemone, Anemone tetonensis, snowdrop anemone