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Definition of Edelweiss
1. Noun. Alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Leontopodium, Leontopodium
Definition of Edelweiss
1. n. A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.
Definition of Edelweiss
1. Noun. A European perennial alpine plant having downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Edelweiss
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Literary usage of Edelweiss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"edelweiss. FROM THE GERMAN. Temple Bar. WHAT is the sweetest little flower In all
... Free from its thrall of snow and ice Dear little blossom — edelweiss. ..."
2. The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems by Frederick Lucian Hosmer, William Channing Gannett (1918)
"edelweiss From the German of Hermann Lingg ON the rock and girt with ice, ...
dear edelweiss, From all other flowers afar; By their joyous spring unblest, ..."
3. The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems: Second Series by Frederick Lucian Hosmer, William Channing Gannett (1894)
"... edelweiss From the German of Hermann Lingg ON the rock and girt with ice, ...
dear edelweiss, From all other flowers afar; By their joyous spring ..."
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