wood anemone

English

Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa)

Noun

wood anemone (plural wood anemones)

1. Either of two plant species of the family Ranunculaceae:
   1. Anemone nemorosa.

      Synonyms: windflower, European thimbleweed, smell fox

   2. 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. Synonym of snowdrop windflower

Derived terms

• yellow wood anemone (Anemone ranunculoides)

 

Translations

Anemone nemorosa

• Bulgarian: бяла съсънка (bjala sǎsǎnka)
• Catalan: buixol m, pasqüeta f
• Czech: sasanka hajní f
• Danish: hvid anemone c
• Dutch: bosanemoon (nl)
• Estonian: võsaülane
• Finnish: valkovuokko (fi)
• French: anémone sylvie (fr) f
• German: Buschwindröschen (de) n
• Italian: anemone dei boschi m
• Lithuanian: baltažiedė plukė
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvitveis (no)

  Nynorsk: kvitveis

• Polish: zawilec gajowy m
• Portuguese: anêmona-dos-bosques f
• Romanian: floarea-Paștelui (ro) f, păștiță (ro) f
• Russian: ве́треница дубра́вная f (vétrenica dubrávnaja)
• Swedish: vitsippa (sv) c
• Welsh: blodyn y gwynt (cy) m

Anemone quinquefolia

• Finnish: n.a.
• Swedish: amerikansk vitsippa c

Anemone sylvestris — see snowdrop windflower

See also

• wood anemone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anemone on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Anemone nemorosa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anemone quinquefolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anemone sylvestris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia