anemone

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /əˈnɛm.ə.ni/

  Often metathesized as IPA: /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:

     Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all (...)

2. A sea anemone.

Translations

• French: anémone
• German: Windröschen, Anemone
• Italian: anemone
• Portuguese: anémona (Portugal), anémone (Portugal), anêmona (Brazil), anêmone (Brazil)
• Russian: анемо́н
• Spanish: anémona

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