anemone
Syllables: a·nem·o·ne/əˈnɛməni/
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Australia/əˈneməni/
anemone noun: any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
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Noun
anemone (plural anemones)
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 23
- Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
- A sea anemone.
anemone meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
anemone in Tamil
- கடற்சாமந்தி, சாமந்தி போன்ற மலர்ச்செடியினங்களின் வகை
anemone in Kannada
- ಒಂದು ಆಲಂಕಾರಿಕ ಪುಷ್ಪ, ಅನಿಮನಿ, ಒಂದು ಕಡಲ ಜೀವಿ, ಕಡಲ ಹೂ
anemone in Tagalog
- any plant of genus Anemone
- anemona
anemone in Arabic
- any plant of genus Anemone
- شَقِيقَة النُّعْمَان šaqīqat an-nuʕmān
More languagesFewer languages
- anemone in Persian
- آلاله âlâle
Examples of anemone in a sentence
- Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 115:
- The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New...
Forms of anemone
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Origin of anemone
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”). Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).
Words formed from anemone
- alpine anemone
- ANDRILL anemone
- anemonefish
- anemone fish
- anemonin
- anemonol
- buttercup anemone
- Chinese anemone
- clown anemone
- false plum anemone
- hell's fire anemone
- Japanese anemone
- jewel anemone
- narcissus-flowered anemone
- rue anemone
- sea anemone
- sun anemone shrimp
- tree anemone
- wood anemone
- yellow anemone
- yellow wood anemone
- yellow woodland anemone
Phrases with anemone
Words that rhyme with anemone
Questions about anemone
- What does anemone mean?
- Anemone means any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- What is anemone in Tamil?
- Anemone in Tamil is கடற்சாமந்தி, சாமந்தி போன்ற மலர்ச்செடியினங்களின் வகை. See Anemone meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use anemone in a sentence?
- Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume.
- What part of speech is anemone?
- Anemone is a noun.
- How do you pronounce anemone?
- Anemone is pronounced /əˈnɛməni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of anemone?
- The plural of anemone is anemones.
Words near anemone in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anemone (page history and authors); anemone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anemone (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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