EDELWEISS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Edelweiss

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈeɪdəlvˌaɪs/ Listen

Edelweiss

noun

Alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts. Synonym: Leontopodium alpinum.

See images of 'Edelweiss'

Etymology of 'Edelweiss'

Related search:

north island edelweiss

Share |

"Edelweiss" Quotes from Famous Books

... fades out into a German mistiness. But I speak of it with the imperfect knowledge of one who was never able to read it quite through, and I have really no right to speak of it. The book of his that pleased me most was 'Edelweiss,' which, though the story was somewhat too catastrophical, seemed to me admirably good and true. I still think it very delicately done, and with a deep insight; but there is something in all Auerbach's work which in the retrospect affects me as ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... many duties, and are not altogether free, as would be supposed. I am at the head of this little band. We are Flower Fairies, cousins to the Wind Fairies and Herb Elves. I am familiar with every wild-flower that grows, and I am now desirous of getting for our forests some seeds of the Swiss Edelweiss. If you can procure them for me I ...

— Prince Lazybones and Other Stories • Mrs. W. J. Hays

Words linked to "Edelweiss" : genus Leontopodium, north island edelweiss, wild flower, wildflower, Leontopodium