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.
- sea anemone.
Origin of anemone
Examples from the Web for anemone
Historical Examples of anemone
Lulla, because of her anemone ways, is sometimes unkindly called "Huffs."
Lotus BudsAmy Carmichael
The Japanese anemone should be replanted only in the spring.
Making a Garden of PerennialsW. C. Egan
Drop one in the centre of an anemone and see how quickly it contracts.
The Log of the SunWilliam Beebe
Of course not; I should think I ought to know an anemone by now, sir!
Bob Strong's HolidaysJohn Conroy Hutcheson
The Anemone and Ranunculus are medium, or half-hardy, roots.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
anemone
- 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 flowersSee also pasqueflower Compare sea anemone
Word Origin for anemone
Word Origin and History for anemone
flowering plant genus, 1550s, from Middle French anemone (16c.) and directly from Latin anemone, from Greek anemone "wind flower," literally "daughter of the wind," from anemos "wind" (cognate with Latin anima; see animus) + -one feminine patronymic suffix. According to Asa Gray, so called because it was thought to open only when the wind blows. Klein suggests the flower name perhaps originally is from Hebrew (cf. na'aman, in nit'e na'amanim, literally "plants of pleasantness," in Is. xvii:10, from na'em "was pleasant"). Applied to a type of sea creature (sea anemone) from 1773.
anemone
- See sea anemone.