edelweiss
/ˈeɪdəlvaɪs/noun
1- a European mountain plant which has woolly white bracts around its small flowers and downy grey-green leaves火绒草。
1.1
- Leontopodium alpinum, family Compositae.拉丁名Leontopodium alpinum, 菊科。
词源
mid 19th cent.: from German, from edel 'noble' + weiss 'white'.