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windflower

windflower noun: synonym of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).

Noun

windflower (plural windflowers)

  1. Synonym of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).
    • Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, encreaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes.1649, Nicholas Culpeper, A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London, London: Peter Cole, page 40
    • “When windflowers blossom on the sea
      And fishes skim along the plain,
      Then we who part this weary day,
      Then you and I shall meet again.”1881, Christina Rossetti, “One Foot on the Sea, and One on Shore”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 95
    Synonyms:
    wood anemone

Examples of windflower in a sentence

  • The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VIII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 101:
  • “[…] We spent an hour in a hazel copse, picking primroses and looking at the little white windflowers.1963, Aldous Huxley, chapter 7, in Island, New York: Bantam, page 101:

Synonyms of windflower

Forms of windflower

pluralwindflowers

Origin of windflower

From wind + flower.

Words formed from windflower

Questions about windflower

What does windflower mean?
Windflower means synonym of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).
How do you use windflower in a sentence?
The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
What part of speech is windflower?
Windflower is a noun.
What is the plural of windflower?
The plural of windflower is windflowers.

Words near windflower in the dictionary

  1. windfarming
  2. windfarms
  3. windfirm
  4. windflaw
  5. windflaws
  6. windflower
  7. windflowers
  8. windfucker
  9. windfuckers
  10. windful
  11. windfuls

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