Definitions for edelweisses

edelweisses e·del·weiss

Spelling: [eyd-l-vahys, -wahys]
IPA: /ˈeɪd lˌvaɪs, -ˌwaɪs/

Edelweisses is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in edelweisses (deeeeilsssw).

Definitions for edelweisses

noun

  1. a small composite plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly leaves and flowers, growing in the high altitudes of the Alps.
  2. a liqueur made in Italy, flavored with the extracts of alpine flowers.

Origin of edelweisses

1860-65; German, equivalent to edel noble + weiss white

Examples for edelweisses

In either case, edelweiss was not what he had come to believe it would be.

"See, we are above the rest of you; we are the edelweiss," said these flowers.

Hunting for it is like hunting for the edelweiss in Switzerland.

Everybody in the Alps wears a sprig of edelweiss in his hat.

The young men at Pontresina called her ‘The edelweiss’ because she was so inaccessible.

But he did see him going into Balak as he left for edelweiss that morning.

Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour.

They are also often clothed all over in cottonwool, such as the edelweiss.

Tall young Americans were quite common in edelweiss in these days.

All this happened before I knew that Peter was living in edelweiss.

Word Value for edelweisses
Scrable

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Words with friends

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