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Definition of Rue anemone

1. Noun. Woodland flower native to eastern North America having cup-shaped flowers reminiscent of anemone but more delicate.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rue Anemone

Literary usage of Rue anemone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"THE RUE-ANEMONE Under an oak-tree in a woodland, where The dreaming Spring had dropped it from her hair. I found a flower, through which I ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"There are several seeds in each cap- sule of the false rue-anemone, but only one seed in each nutlet of the true. Both plants are abundant in the woods ..."

3. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"rue anemone. PARTS USED.—The tuberous roots and flowering herb of Thalictrum ane- ... The name, rue anemone, was given to this plant to indicate the ..."

4. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"The leaves are characteristically wedge-shaped, and on this account there is no excuse for confusing the plant with Thalictrum anemo- noides, or rue anemone ..."

5. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"False rue anemone. Very common on "beech and maple" land, but not on oak. ... Rue-Anemone. Anemonella thalictroides Spach. Quite local through C. & S.; ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"The student, during his first spring among the early flowers, is quite liable to confuse this isopyrum with the rue-anemone (Thalictrum ..."

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