windflower

1. 1.

   any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves

   Synonymsanemone

   Broaderflower

   NarrowerAlpine anemoneCanada anemonethimbleweedwood anemonesnowdrop anemone

   Part ofgenus Anemone

Other forms of windflower

plural

windflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about windflower

What does windflower mean?

windflower means "any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves".

How many syllables are in windflower?

windflower has 3 syllables: wind-flo-wer. The stress falls on "wind".

What is another word for windflower?

Close synonyms include anemone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is windflower a common word?

windflower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.