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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thetribe Anemoneae — theanemones .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This magnificent image, titled Red Anemone, is artist Katinka Matson's latest flower portrait created not with a traditional camera but rather a high-resolution digital scanner.
Boing Boing 2007
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Anemone from the same country, for autumn blooming, one or two tuberous-rooted Begonias, some Gaillardias and Zinnias, the fragrant little Asperula (Woodruff), and some others.
An Island Garden 1894
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It is called Anemone decapetala, and if not by any means a showy species, tufts of it three years from seed have this season been very pretty.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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Then the gods, because she was beloved by the winds, called her Anemone, the wind-flower.
The Enchanted Castle A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland Hartwell [Editor] James 1910
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It is said the wind blows the blossoms open, and afterwards blows the petals away; so it is called Anemone, or Wind
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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It is said the wind blows the blossoms open, and afterwards blows the petals away; so it is called Anemone, or Wind
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Cap'n Bill had commanded and owned the "Anemone," a trading schooner that plied along the coast; and in those days Charlie Griffiths, who was Trot's father, had been the Captain's mate.
The Sea Fairies 1887
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And the cellist here, Fred Lonberg-Holm, works in the same way-capable of both delicate chamber sounds ( "Anemone") or percussively plucked tap-dancing ( "Warblepeck") and harrowing sawing that is electronically enhanced ( "Two Shadows").
PopMatters 2009
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And the cellist here, Fred Lonberg-Holm, works in the same way-capable of both delicate chamber sounds ( "Anemone") or percussively plucked tap-dancing ( "Warblepeck") and harrowing sawing that is electronically enhanced ( "Two Shadows").
PopMatters 2009
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Ross in his "Mystagogus Poeticus," who says that Adonis "was by Venus turned into a red flower called Anemone"), and as I wish, if possible, to link the description to some special flower, I conclude that the evidence is in favour of the Anemone.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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