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Meanings of anemone in English
Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
Portuguese
anêmona Catalan
anèmona de mar Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton.
Synonyms
Examples for "windflower"
Examples for "windflower"
1
What new presence quivered in every listening harebell and every fearful windflower?
2
Their movement in the wind leads to their other common name, the windflower.
3
You have ceased to be a windflower, and are not yet a rose.
4
Betty is a windflower, Sir Charles, a little tender timid flower, frail and sweet-areyou not, Betty?
5
Only one starry white windflower, clasped tight in her fingers through the long night hours, gradually drooped and died.
Usage of anemone in English
1
The anemone grows in open places by the woods or the hillside.
2
They open briefly, like an anemone being prodded, then curl up again.
3
There is a sweet little flower called the wood anemone, or wind-flower.
4
Beulah leaned forward and plucked an anemone blossom from a rock cranny.
5
Therefore, scorpion and sea anemone toxins offer an example of mechanistic convergent evolution.
6
A beadlet anemone devouring a young goby with an implosive burst.
7
To Helena an anemone was one more fantastic pretty figure in her kaleidoscope.
8
It is a perfect flower with its petals, like the houstonia or anemone.
9
She found clumps of bloodroot, great anemone-flowers that she picked by the handful.
10
The anemone that weeps at day-break, like a silly girl before her lover
11
This person plunges underwater and moves her hair around like a sea anemone.
12
And neither crocus, nor anemone, nor narcissus was as fair as she was.
13
The small sea anemone Aiptasia provides a tractable laboratory model for investigating these mechanisms.
14
The Japanese anemone should be replanted only in the spring.
15
Today the Lapasa empire has more tentacles than an anemone.
16
This lodger, as you will notice in our coloured picture, is the sea anemone.
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Anemone through the time
Anemone across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common