MEANING
1. A soft-bodied marine animal with a ring of tentacles around its mouth, often attached to rock.
2. A flowering plant of the buttercup family, often bearing delicate white or brightly colored flowers.
Use it for
describing a flowerlike animal in a tidepool; identifying tentacles spreading from a fixed sea creature; distinguishing a sea animal from a plantKeeps the flowerlike marine animal separate from the unrelated flowering plant. Writing functions: Flowerlike sea animal / Flowering plant.
Words that belong together
- a sea anemone
- anemone tentacles
- an anemone on a rock
On the page
The anemone folded its tentacles when the water above it stirred.
A small fish hovered among the sea anemone’s arms.
White anemones opened beneath the newly leafed trees.
She planted anemones beside the garden wall.
Word forms
- Base
- anemone
Usage notes
Countable noun: anemone, anemones. Sea anemone specifies the animal; the shorter word can also name a flowering plant. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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