[ 'eɪd(ə)lvʌɪs ]
■ noun a mountain plant which has woolly white bracts around its small flowers and downy grey-green leaves. [ Leontopodium alpinum .]
Origin
C19: from Ger., from edel 'noble' + weiss 'white'.
EDELWEISS
Meaning of EDELWEISS in English
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004