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Anemone

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Noun

1. anemone, windflower

any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves

2. anemone, sea anemone

marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anemone

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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 anemone

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Anemone

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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

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anemone

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n.
1. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Anemone in the buttercup family, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having palmately lobed leaves and large white or brightly colored flowers. Also called windflower.
2. A sea anemone.

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