ANEMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anemone mean? 

• ANEMONE (noun)
  The noun ANEMONE has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: ANEMONE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANEMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

anemone; windflower

Hypernyms ("anemone" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anemone"):

Alpine anemone; Anemone tetonensis; mountain anemone (silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers)

Anemone Canadensis; Canada anemone (common summer-flowering woodland herb of Labrador to Colorado)

Anemone cylindrica; thimbleweed (a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles)

Anemone nemorosa; wood anemone (European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands)

Anemone quinquefolia; snowdrop; wood anemone (common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers)

Anemone sylvestris; snowdrop anemone; snowdrop windflower (Eurasian herb with solitary nodding fragrant white flowers)

Holonyms ("anemone" is a member of...):

genus Anemone (perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

anemone; sea anemone

Hypernyms ("anemone" is a kind of...):

actinozoan; anthozoan (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anemone"):

actinia; actinian; actiniarian (any sea anemone or related animal)

Holonyms ("anemone" is a member of...):

Actinaria; Actiniaria; order Actinaria; order Actiniaria (sea anemones)

 Context examples 

Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)