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Meanings of wood anemone in English

Portuguese
fura-neve

Common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers.

        fura-neve

        European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands.

              Usage of wood anemone in English
              1
              There is a sweet little flower called the wood anemone, or wind-flower.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              2
              Once, up in the heart of the Alaska forest, it was just a sweet wood anemone.
              The Rim of the Desert
              3
              Around 55 important ancient woodland plants and trees grow here, including bluebell, wood anemone, pignut and primrose.
              The Guardian
              4
              While I have numbered bloodroot among May flowers, it often does appear in April, and before the wood anemone.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              5
              In spring, the wildflowers in their shade ( wood anemone, bluebell, wild garlic) are tokens of a venerable past.
              The Irish Times
              6
              For May there are the dog-tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              7
              You might as well talk like that to a wood anemone, or a wild rabbit....
              Dangerous Ages
              8
              No flowers could he see, but once or twice a wood anemone, and now and then a tiny grove of wood-sorrel.
              J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 / The Haunted Baronet (1...
              9
              Another wood anemone, a frou-frou double named 'Vestal', has heads that nod slightly under the weight of excess from its crisp white pompoms.
              The Guardian
              10
              Wood anemones abound, rhizomes as aged as this canopy of oak.
              The Guardian
              11
              And now she wanted badly to gather some wood anemones.
              A Book of Quaker Saints
              12
              This is a very ancient track threaded through with white wood anemones and scattered with badger setts.
              The Guardian
              13
              The double white Wood Anemone may be propagated by divisions of the tubers, after the foliage has completely withered.
              Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
              14
              And all the wood anemones
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920
              15
              A few days later some of the copses were beautifully enlivened by Ranunculus auricomus, wood anemones, and a white Stellaria.
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
              16
              "A wood anemone," he said to himself; "I likened her to a wood anemone.
              Red Pottage
              Translations for wood anemone
              Portuguese
              fura-neve