windflower

IPA: wˈɪndfɫaʊɝ

An early spring flowering species of the family Ranunculaceae (Anemone nemorosa).

Examples of "windflower" in Sentences

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
So, though he be as fragile as a windflower, he may assure himself,
Alfred Austin says, "With windflower honey are my tresses smoothed."
She gave him her hand, light as a windflower in his, and as cold when he kissed it.
Had she been a 'nowadays aunt' she might have thought that Mary was not unlike a windflower herself.
The bright blue flowers of a windflower (Anemone blanda) pop out against the white leaves of a nearby lamium, which also is in bloom.
An anemone (pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee), sometimes called a "windflower" for reasons that should clear shortly, is a member of the buttercup family.
Beyond them he saw the forbidden orchard, with cuckoo-flower and primrose, daffodil and celandine, silver windflower and sweet violets blue and white, spangling the gay grass.