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Definition of Pasque flower
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Pulsatilla, Pulsatilla
Specialized synonyms: American Pasqueflower, American Pulsatilla, Anemone Ludoviciana, Blue Tulip, Eastern Pasque Flower, Lion's Beard, Prairie Anemone, Pulsatilla Patens, Wild Crocus, Anemone Occidentalis, Pulsatilla Occidentalis, Western Pasqueflower, Anemone Pulsatilla, European Pasqueflower, Pulsatilla Vulgaris
Definition of Pasque flower
1. Noun. Various deciduous perennial flowering plants, of the genus ''Pulsatilla'', found in clumps in certain grassland areas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasque Flower
Literary usage of Pasque flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"EUROPEAN PASQUE-FLOWER. (ANEMONE PULSATILLA. ) There is a class of herbaceous
plants that grow in close, low tufts that should be used throughout a mass of ..."
2. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"PASQUE-FLOWER (ANEMONE PULSATILLA), GROWING IN STONY SOIL ON A HILLSIDE. found in
great numbers throughout the north temperate zone. The pasque-flower (A. ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The pasque flower or gosling is known to the children of Minnesota as the ...
There are several kinds of flowers which really open before the pasque-flower, ..."
4. Prairie Smoke by Melvin Randolph Gilmore (1922)
"Herald of Spring, Lowly they sigh: Lovely pasque flower, Slowly they waken, ...
Who still do sleep: pasque flower brave; Callest thy playmates Noble thy ..."
5. Materia Medica and Therapeutics for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle, Clement Biddle (1895)
"... consists of veratrine 2 parts, to 98 parts of oleic acid : useful in spinal
irritation, rubbed over the vertebra:, PULSATILLA—PASQUE-FLOWER. ..."
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