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wood anemone (plural wood anemones)

  1. Either of two plant species of the family Ranunculaceae, Anemone nemorosa and Anemone quinquefolia.
    • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26:
      The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.
    • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 60:
      The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion[.]
  2. The snowdrop windflower (Anemone sylvestris).

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