anemone
/əˈnɛməni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.56 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
noun
A sea anemone.
Example Sentences
- "Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts."
- "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 […]"
- "Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle."
- "The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden."
Etymology
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”). Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂enh₁-, anemōnē, ἀνεμώνη
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈnɛməni/
- British English: /əˈnɛməni/