edelweiss

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edelweiss Small perennial native to the Alps and other Eurasian mountains. It has white, downy leaves and small, yellow flower heads enclosed in whitish-yellow bracts. Family Asteraceae (Compositae); species Leontopodium alpinum.

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edelweiss

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e·del·weiss / ˈādlˌwīs; -ˌvīs/ • n. a European mountain plant (Leontopodium alpinum) of the daisy family that has woolly white bracts around its small flowers and downy gray-green leaves.

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edelweiss

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edelweiss XIX. — G., f. edel noble + weiss WHITE.

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