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  • noun Plural form of twinflower.

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Examples

  • Bright pink bell-shaped blossoms on a vine of twinflowers crept around a crepe myrtle bush, and the sweet, honeysuckle fragrance filled the cool evening air.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Bright pink bell-shaped blossoms on a vine of twinflowers crept around a crepe myrtle bush, and the sweet, honeysuckle fragrance filled the cool evening air.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Bright pink bell-shaped blossoms on a vine of twinflowers crept around a crepe myrtle bush, and the sweet, honeysuckle fragrance filled the cool evening air.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • In different places there was the wild parsnip; the ginger-plant, with its heart-shaped leaf and blossom, buried in the leaf-mould, its crushed leaves redolent of ginger; masses of yellow violets, twinflowers, ox-eye daisies, and sweet-in-death, which is sold on the streets in the West as we sell sweet lavender.

    Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • The signs of death and decay, indeed, appear everywhere in fallen trunks, dead branches, and decayed masses of wood, but moss and lichens, twinflowers and bunchberries so quickly mantle the prostrate trees that they do not seem like tokens of weakness.

    The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911

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