Pinkster \Pink"ster\, n. [D. pinkster, pinksteren, fr. Gr. ?.
See Pentecost.]
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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