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How to use anemone in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Anemone means any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower. Example: “They peeked into the tidepool and found starfish and anemones.”

Examples of anemone by meaning

nounAny 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
  • 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

More sentences with anemone

  • They peeked into the tidepool and found starfish and anemones.From the entry tidepool
  • We found solitary and clustered zoanthidean anemones, possibly the same we had been seeing in many variations.1951, John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez. From the entry zoanthidean
  • Other abundant groups included actinarian and zoanthid anemones, bryozoans, caprellid and gammaridian amphipods, clionid sponges, hydroids, ophiuroids, and tunicates.2015 December 19, “Success in Competition for Space in Two Invasive Coral Species in the western Atlantic – Tubastraea micranthus and T .…. From the entry gammaridian
  • The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26. From the entry wingtip
  • You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times. From the entry cimicifuga
  • They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times. From the entry fingery
  • Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!2000, Ciarán Carson, Fishing for Amber, page 143. From the entry eau de nil
  • Most dendronotaceans do, however, feed on cnidarians, ranging from hydroids to sea anemones, sea whips, and sea pens, and scyphistomas of scyphozoan jellyfishes.1990, Eugene N. Kozloff, Invertebrates, page 411. From the entry dendronotacean
  • The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VIII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 101. From the entry windflower
  • We aimed to check the effect of the anthropopause on the populations of the sea anemones and RSCF by comparing their numbers before and after the pandemic closures.2022, Reuven Yosef, Tal Nachshonov, Piotr Zduniak, “Anthropopause positively influenced Red Sea Clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus)…. From the entry anthropopause
  • His gorgeous lippies are like blood red anemones, a beautiful little flower like a daughter, or even lilies distilling liquid sweet-scented myrrh, the chief of the chiefs!2019, Ashley DD Hajny, From Golden Eagle to White Eagle: A Special Invitation to Become Like Christ, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry lippy
  • We show that classic I h -encoding HCN channels are present in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Cnidaria), and thus I h was likely present in ancestral parahoxozoans.2015 November 11, “Functional Characterization of Cnidarian HCN Channels Points to an Early Evolution of I h”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry parahoxozoans
  • Absence of artifice: A fragrant medley of garden roses, including vintage varieties, is accented brightly by anemones, French calla lilies, and a surprising purple wax bean.1995, Teleflora Incorporated (publisher), Flowers &., volume 16, page 46. From the entry purple wax bean
  • Not one, not two, not ten, but dozens of wood anemones, their green leaves perfect, their white and purple flowers half open and bespattered with shining raindroplets.1980, William Horwood, “Siabod”, in Duncton Wood, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 439. From the entry raindroplet

Meaning of anemone

  1. noun Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
  2. noun A sea anemone.

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Questions about anemone in a sentence

How do you use anemone in a sentence?
Anemone is used as a noun. For example: “They peeked into the tidepool and found starfish and anemones.”
What is a short sentence with anemone?
“They peeked into the tidepool and found starfish and anemones.”
What does anemone mean?
Anemone means any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.

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