wood anemone

Questions about wood anemone

What does wood anemone mean?

wood anemone means "common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood anemone?

Close synonyms include snowdrop, Anemone quinquefolia, Anemone nemorosa. 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 wood anemone a common word?

wood anemone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.