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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anemone
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sea anemone
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■ NOUN
sea
▪ Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known.
▪ These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
▪ A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
▪ These and certain sea anemones often leave a mucous trail that, upon dissolving in water, gives off a characteristic odor.
▪ I have reached for slimy sea anemones that slipped out of my hand like soap.
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▪ Above: These colonial anemones are each brandishing hundreds of stinging cells.
▪ Creatures like sea stars and anemones attach themselves firmly to rocks.
▪ Damaged anemones are open to all sorts of bacterial diseases which can be fatal.
▪ Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.
▪ Specimens of this anemone have been seen with as many two dozen clown anemonefish nestled among their tentacles.
▪ The crab effectively parasitises these protective devices for its own ends by placing the anemone on its shell.
▪ There were anemones in a bud vase on the table.
▪ Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anemone

Pulsatilla \Pul`sa*til"la\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in {Anemone}. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

Anemone

Anemone \A*nem"o*ne\, n. [L. anemone, Gr. ?, fr. ? wind.]

  1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

    Note: This word is sometimes pronounced [a^]n`[=e]*m[=o]"n[-e], especially by classical scholars.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 (compare 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.

Wiktionary
anemone

n. 1 Any plant of the genus ''Anemone'', of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower. 2 A sea anemone.

WordNet
anemone
  1. n. any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: windflower]

  2. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone]

Wikipedia
Anémone

Anémone (born 9 August 1950) is a French actress, filmmaker and political activist. Her real name is Anne Bourguignon, and she was born in a family of the Haute Bourgeoisie. She took her stage name in 1968 from the title of her film debut in Philippe Garrel's "Anémone".

Anemone (disambiguation)

Anemone may refer to:

Biology:
  • The genus of plants Anemone
  • Sea anemones: Members of the order of animals Actiniaria, including:
    • Aggregating anemone
    • Heteractis magnifica, a sea anemone found in the Indo-Pacific area
  • Tube-dwelling anemone
  • Hippolytidae, anemone shrimp
Music:
  • "Anemone", a song by the Brian Jonestown Massacre on their album Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
  • "Anemone", a song by L'Arc-en-Ciel on their album Clicked Singles Best 13
  • "Anemone", a song by ClariS
Other uses:
  • Anemone, a French radar used in the Super Etendard Modernise and the Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha jet
  • Anemone (Eureka Seven), one of the characters in the anime series Eureka Seven
  • Anémone (born 1950), a French actress
  • , the name of more than one United States Navy ship

    • USS Anemone (1864), a steamer used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
    • , a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1917 to 1919

Usage examples of "anemone".

The vinegar of Wood Anemone made from the leaves retains all the more acrid properties of the plant, and is put, in France, to many rural domestic purposes.

Anemone japonica, Aralia Sieboldi, Asters, Chrysanthemum, Lilium auratum, Origanum pulchellum, Petasites vulgaris, Physalis Alkekengi, Primula vulgaris flore-pleno, Saxifraga Fortunei, Stokesia cyanea.

But though the annelids were fresh and the dried anemone crunchy and well seasoned, the food failed to alleviate his discomfort.

Here Flora had surely played a trick to plant golden genista against the intense sapphire blue of a Capri sea, and she must have emptied her apron all at once to have spangled the rough grass with cistus, anemone, and starry asphodel.

And his father knew the plants of the marshlands Bed Straw and Ox Eye, Seedbox and Frog Fruit, Strangleweed and Dropwort and he knew the creatures of the Gulf waters blue crabs, grass shrimp, hermits, coquinas, sea anemones and sea leeches.

In homeopathy the Anemone and the Forget-me-not are known as Pulsatilla and Myosotis, and chemists accustomed to the Latin names may be shocked to find Taraxacum under Dandelion, Podophyllum under Mandrake, and Calendula under Marigold.

He tried to keep his bearing on the reef, let his eye bounce from coral fan to anemone to nudibranch to eel, like visual stepping-stones, because to his left there was no reference, nothing but empty blue, and when he looked there he felt like a child watching for a strange face at the window, so convinced and terrified it would come that any shape, any movement, any play of light becomes a horror.

The wild flowers, too, anemone, puccoon and addertongue, nodding in the light breeze, seemed conscious of the joy of life in spring.

The crocus of the glen, the anemone of the prairie, the cress of the sheltered waters, the hum of the first insect, the twitter from the mossy nest, the murmur of forest streams, were all so many types of human rejuvenescence and animation.

Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom.

He feels anemones and urchins and realizes with sudden sadness that this is the first time he has swum close enough to the seabed to sense its life, and it is almost certainly the last, and it is too dark to see.

Scoring his palm, he let his blood fall in scarlet drops, and anemones blossomed where it fell.

She prodded a long-stalked plumose anemone, causing it to draw its feathery pale tendrils back into its body.

Livilla looked down in outrage at her yellow stola, figured with anemones.

He imagined her body floating there, red cuts on her neck, her pale heavyset corpse as bloated as a sausage tortellini in broth, her gray cropped hair waving like a sea anemone.