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anemone
(əneməni)
Word forms: plural anemones
countable noun
An anemone is a garden plant with red, purple, or white flowers.
anemone in British English
(əˈnɛmənɪ)
noun
any ranunculaceous woodland plant of the genus Anemone of N temperate regions, such as the white-flowered A. nemorosa (wood anemone or windflower). Some cultivated anemones have lilac, pale blue, pink, purple, or red flowers
See also pasqueflower, Compare sea anemoneWord origin
C16: via Latin from Greek: windflower, from anemos windanemone in American English
(əˈnɛməˌni)
noun
1. Botany
any of a number of related plants of a genus (Anemone) of the buttercup family, with cup-shaped flowers that are usually white, pink, red, or purple
2. Zoology
sea anemone
Word origin
L < Gr anemōnē, altered, after anemos, wind < ?Image ofanemone
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- it's good for you
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- it shamed him to admit ...
- it's hardly surprising
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- it's hard work serving in a shop
- it's heads
- it's/he's a hoot
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- it's hot/cold
- it's hot/difficult enough as it is
- it's impossible for me to leave now
- it's impossible to drag him out of bed/out of the house
- it's in/down there
- it's interesting that you should agree
- it's in the bag
- it's in the house/garden/box
- it's just about big enough
- it's just as well
- it's just off the motorway
- it's (just or all) an act
- it's just right
- it's just that