Anemone

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  • noun. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Anemone in the buttercup family, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having palmately lobed leaves and large white or brightly colored flowers.
  • noun. A sea anemone.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A plant of the genus Anemonc. Also spelled anemony.
  • noun. [capitalized] [NL.] A widely distributed genus of herbaceous perennials, the wind-flowers, natural order Ranunculaceæ.
  • noun. In zoology, a sea-anemone (which see).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
  • noun. The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
  • noun. A sea anemone.
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  • noun. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
  • noun. any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
    • Word Usage
    "The word anemone comes from a Greek word which means breath, wind, or spirit."
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