Definition of Alpine anemone

1. Noun. Silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Anemone Tetonensis, Mountain Anemone
Generic synonyms: Anemone, Windflower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Anemone

Alpha Centauri B
Alpha Centauri C
Alpha Crucis
Alpha Geminorum
Alpha Orionis
Alpha cells
Alpha tests
Alphard
Alpheratz
Alphonse
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Capone
Alphonsine
Alphonso
Alpine
Alpine anemone (current term)
Alpine besseya
Alpine celery pine
Alpine enchanter's nightshade
Alpine fir
Alpine glacier
Alpine golden chain
Alpine lady fern
Alpine lift
Alpine mouse-ear
Alpine scurvy
Alpine type of glacier
Alpine woodsia
Alpinia
Alpinia Zerumbet

Literary usage of Alpine anemone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"The great bearded seed-heads of the fine alpine Anemone gave a marked feature to the meadows in ... The yellow alpine Anemone was not uncommon higher up. ..."

2. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"The Alpine anemone has a larger flower and thicker stalks than A. multifida ; it also grows higher up on the mountains, and may be found close to perpetual ..."

3. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"The Alpine anemone has a larger flower and thicker stalks than A. multifida ; it also grows higher up ..."

4. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"315, I.) and the Alpine anemone (Pulsatilla alj/ina, Fig. 315, II.) the stylo of the ovary remains attached to the fruit. The style is covered with silvery, ..."

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