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Anemone
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Anemone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Anemone has 2 senses
- anemone(n = noun.plant) windflower - any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves; Array is a kind of flower
- anemone(n = noun.animal) sea anemone - marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton; Array is a kind of actinozoan, anthozoan
is a member of genus anemone
has particulars: alpine anemone, anemone tetonensis, mountain anemone, anemone canadensis, canada anemone, anemone cylindrica, thimbleweed, anemone nemorosa, wood anemone, anemone quinquefolia, snowdrop, wood anemone, anemone sylvestris, snowdrop anemone, snowdrop windflower
is a member of actinaria, actiniaria, order actinaria, order actiniaria
has particulars: actinia, actinian, actiniarian
CIDE DICTIONARY
Anemone, n. [L. anemone, Gr. , fr. wind.].
- A genus of plants of the
Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens. [1913 Webster] - The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone. [1913 Webster]" This word is sometimes pronounced
, especially by classical scholars.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Anemone, n.
1 any plant of the genus Anemone, akin to the buttercup, with flowers of various vivid colours.
2 = PASQUE-FLOWER.
1 any plant of the genus Anemone, akin to the buttercup, with flowers of various vivid colours.
2 = PASQUE-FLOWER.
Etymology
L f. Gk anemone wind-flower f. anemos wind
ROGET THESAURUS
Anemone
Beauty
N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.
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