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anemony

anemony is the archaic form of anemone.

Meaning of anemone

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

  1. 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
  2. A sea anemone.

Forms of anemony

pluralanemonies

Questions about anemony

What is anemony the archaic form of?
Anemony is the archaic form of anemone.

Words near anemony in the dictionary

  1. anemones
  2. anemonic acid
  3. anemonies
  4. anemonin
  5. anemonol
  6. anemony
  7. anemophile
  8. anemophiles
  9. anemophilous
  10. anemophilously
  11. anemophily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anemony (page history and authors); anemone (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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