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anemone

/əˈnɛməni/ noun

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In Latin: anemōnē, phaenion Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about anemone at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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

Origin

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”).

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