noun
short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
• Syn:
↑Eastern pasque flower, ↑wild crocus, ↑lion's beard, ↑prairie anemone, ↑blue tulip, ↑American pulsatilla, ↑Pulsatilla patens, ↑Anemone ludoviciana
• Hypernyms: ↑pasqueflower, ↑pasque flower
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nounUsage: usually capitalized A
: any of several American plants of the genus Anemone; especially : a hirsute perennial (A. ludoviciana) with long-petioled leaves and persistent plumose styles
Useful english dictionary. 2012.