anemone
any of various plants belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having petallike sepals and including several wild species with white flowers as well as others cultivated for their showy flowers in a variety of colors.
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How to use anemone in a sentence
An anemone can jab a predator or nab some lunch in about a hundredth of a second, says Karabulut, also of the Stowers Institute.
Sea anemones, which are closely related to corals, and mushroom coral can turn oxybenzone — a chemical that protects people against ultraviolet light — into a deadly toxin that’s activated by light.
Researchers identified a host of anemones and other species living within the rubbish, which allows the little creatures to thrive in an otherwise inhospitable environment.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a ‘raft of life’ for animals in the open ocean | Kate Baggaley | December 3, 2021 | Popular-ScienceTide pools sprung up out of seemingly every water-filled boulder, showing off their electric green anemones and thick clumps of mussels.
“Probably these slicing teeth allowed it to process a huge range of foods,” says Longrich, noting that dogfish sharks use their teeth to chop up everything from fish to sea anemones.
This ancient sea reptile had a slicing bite like no other | Jake Buehler | February 2, 2021 | Science News
A single print of an enlarged sea anemone came across as a declaration rather than a suggestion.
Sad faery blossoms secret scents distil In trackless solitudes; nor ever will The lone anemone her lover find!
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautieranemone Cottage was built partly of boulders taken from the shore.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamMiss Martha was very proud of her dining-room at anemone Cottage.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamThe plant is closely related to the anemone, which is sometimes called the wind flower.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph GilmoreBut this legend was not followed by the other classical writers, who made the anemone to be the flower of Adonis.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
British Dictionary definitions for anemone
/ (əˈnɛmənɪ) /
any ranunculaceous woodland plant of the genus Anemone of N temperate regions, such as the white-flowered A. nemorosa (wood anemone or windflower). Some cultivated anemones have lilac, pale blue, pink, purple, or red flowers: See also pasqueflower Compare sea anemone
Origin of anemone
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Scientific definitions for anemone
[ ə-nĕm′ə-nē ]
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