ALL meanings of edelweiss
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E e - noun edelweiss A European mountain plant that has woolly white bracts around its small flowers and downy gray-green leaves. 1
- noun edelweiss a small composite plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly leaves and flowers, growing in the high altitudes of the Alps. 1
- noun edelweiss a liqueur made in Italy, flavored with the extracts of alpine flowers. 1
- noun edelweiss a small alpine flowering plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly oblong leaves and a tuft of attractive floral leaves surrounding the flowers: family Asteraceae (composites) 0
- noun edelweiss a small, flowering plant (Leontopodium alpinum) of the composite family, native to the high mountains of Europe and central Asia, esp. the Alps, with leaves and petal-like bracts that are white and woolly 0