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Webster 1913 Edition

Pinkster

Pink′ster

,

Noun.

[D.

pinkster

,

pinksteren

, fr. Gr. [GREEK]. See

.]

Whitsuntide.

[Written also

pingster

and

pinxter

.]

Pinkster flower

(Bot.)

,

the rosy flower of the

Azalea nudiflora

; also, the shrub itself; – called also

Pinxter blomachee

by the New York descendants of the Dutch settlers.