windflower
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.45 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, encreaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes."
- "“When windflowers blossom on the sea And fishes skim along the plain, Then we who part this weary day, Then you and I shall meet again.”"
- "The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor."
- "“[…] We spent an hour in a hazel copse, picking primroses and looking at the little white windflowers. One doesn’t pick the windflowers,” he explained, “because in an hour they’re withered. […]”"
- "Here is spring were celandine, marsh marigold, wind-flower, primrose, cowslip and dog's violet."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts Proto-Germanic *windaz Proto-West Germanic *wind Old English wind Middle English wynd English wind English flower English windflower From wind + flower.