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PASQUE FLOWER

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone

Synonyms:

pasque flower; pasqueflower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pasque flower" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasque flower"):

American pasqueflower; American pulsatilla; Anemone ludoviciana; blue tulip; Eastern pasque flower; lion's beard; prairie anemone; Pulsatilla patens; wild crocus (short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia)

Anemone occidentalis; Pulsatilla occidentalis; Western pasqueflower (of western North America)

Anemone pulsatilla; European pasqueflower; Pulsatilla vulgaris (European perennial having usually violet or white spring flowers)

Holonyms ("pasque flower" is a member of...):

genus Pulsatilla; Pulsatilla (includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers)

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