anemone Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves
    windflower.
  2. noun marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
    sea anemone.

WordNet

A*nem"o*ne noun
Etymology
L. anemone, Gr. , fr. wind.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
  2. (Zoöl.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone. ✍ This word is sometimes pronounced n-m-n, especially by classical scholars.

Webster 1913