Anemone

Quick meaning: Anemone is a noun meaning Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.

Meaning

Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.

More Meanings

1. A sea anemone.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.

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 it all […]

Word Forms

• anemones

Synonyms for anemone

Depending on context, synonyms include windflower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include windflower, rue, anemony, ranunculus, ranunculoid, alternanthera.

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