Meaning & use
anemone
A plant with brightly colored cup-shaped flowers, related to the buttercup family.
See it in a sentence
Purple anemones bloomed early in the garden before most other flowers appeared.
The tide pool was full of small pink sea anemones swaying gently.
A note on using this word
Anemone is pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee, with the stress on the second syllable, not the third.
Words with a similar meaning
windflower
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A soft-bodied sea creature with stinging tentacles that resembles a flower and attaches to rocks.
The clownfish hid safely among the sea anemone's stinging tentacles.
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