Meaning & use

anemone

noun·Academic

A plant with brightly colored cup-shaped flowers, related to the buttercup family.

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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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