anemone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sea animal related to coral, with a cylindrical body and a ring of stinging tentacles

   A clownfish sheltered among the tentacles of a sea anemone.

2. 2
   noun

   a flowering plant of the genus Anemone, often called a windflower

   Purple anemones appeared in the woodland before the trees came into leaf.

From Latin anemone and Ancient Greek anemone, traditionally associated with anemos ("wind") and therefore interpreted as "daughter of the wind." English uses the same word for the flowering plant and, by resemblance, the tentacled sea animal.

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