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/ˈænɪmˌoʊn/ /ənˈɛməni/ Listen

Anemone

noun

Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves. Synonym: windflower.

Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton. Synonym: sea anemone.

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... men, each leaning on his stick, walked down a path lined by clipped yews, shaded by cypresses, and almost overgrown with crocus, anemone, and violet. Suddenly from the bushes there came a flutter of wings, followed by the scream of a bird, and in a moment the Pope's cat had leapt on to a marble which stood in the midst of the jungle. It was an ancient sarcophagus, placed there as ...

— The Eternal City • Hall Caine

... mountain, under the black-oak in the yard, with the glint of soft sunshine over everything and the murmur of green leaves in the trees above, as the wind from off the mountain went through them, and the anemone, and bellworts, and daisies grew beneath and around. Was it a bluebird? She had never seen but one and it had built its nest in a hole in a hollow tree, the summer before she went into the ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

Words linked to "Anemone" : actinozoan, actinia, flower, Actiniaria, order Actiniaria, snowdrop windflower, order Actinaria, Actinaria, actinian, snowdrop, anthozoan, thimbleweed, actiniarian