Definition of Pasque flower

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone.


Definition of Pasque flower

1. Noun. Various deciduous perennial flowering plants, of the genus ''Pulsatilla'', found in clumps in certain grassland areas. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasque Flower

pasin
pasiniazide
paska
paskha
paskhas
paso doble
paso dobles
pasodoble
pasodobles
paspalism
paspalum
paspalums
paspies
paspy
pasque
pasque flower (current term)
pasque flowers
pasqueflower
pasqueflowers
pasquil
pasquils
pasquin
pasquinade
pasquinaded
pasquinades
pasquinading

Literary usage of Pasque flower

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

1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"EUROPEAN PASQUE-FLOWER. (ANEMONE PULSATILLA. ) There is a class of herbaceous plants that grow in close, low tufts that should be used throughout a mass of ..."

2. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"PASQUE-FLOWER (ANEMONE PULSATILLA), GROWING IN STONY SOIL ON A HILLSIDE. found in great numbers throughout the north temperate zone. The pasque-flower (A. ..."

3. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The pasque flower or gosling is known to the children of Minnesota as the ... There are several kinds of flowers which really open before the pasque-flower, ..."

4. Prairie Smoke by Melvin Randolph Gilmore (1922)
"Herald of Spring, Lowly they sigh: Lovely pasque flower, Slowly they waken, ... Who still do sleep: pasque flower brave; Callest thy playmates Noble thy ..."

5. Materia Medica and Therapeutics for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle, Clement Biddle (1895)
"... consists of veratrine 2 parts, to 98 parts of oleic acid : useful in spinal irritation, rubbed over the vertebra:, PULSATILLA—PASQUE-FLOWER. ..."

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