[Turner’s rendering of L. anemōnē, Gr. ἀνεμώνη; see ANEMONE. Cf. MHG., G. windblume.] The wood-anemone (Anemone nemorosa), or any plant or flower of the genus Anemone.
1551. Turner, Herbal, I. C v b. Anemone hath the name in Greke of wynde, because the foure neuer openeth it selfe, but when the wynde bloweth…: it may be called wynde floure.
1650. [W. Howe], Phytol. Brit., 8. The wood Anemone or Windfloure.
1714. trans. Joutel’s Jrnl. Voy. Mexico (1719), 66. I have seen … a Sort of purple wind Flowers.
1820. Shelley, Sensit. Pl., I. 17. The pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall.
1852. Whittier, April, 5.
| Where wind-flower and violet, amber and white, | |
| On south-sloping brooksides should smile in the light. |
1898. A. Austin, Lamia’s Winter Quarters, 69. The Apennine windflower.
b. A name for species of gentian. (Cf. lung-flower, LUNG 7.)
1866. in Treas. Bot.
