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windflower

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

wind +? flower

Noun

windflower (plural windflowers)

  1. An early spring flowering species of the family Ranunculaceae, Anemone nemorosa.
    • 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London, London: Peter Cole, p. 40,[1]
      Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, encreaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes.
    • 1881, Christina Rossetti, “One Foot on the Sea, and One on Shore” in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, p. 95,[2]
      “When windflowers blossom on the sea
      And fishes skim along the plain,
      Then we who part this weary day,
      Then you and I shall meet again.”
    • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, New York: Bantam, 1983, Chapter 8, p. 89,[3]
      The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
    • 1963, Aldous Huxley, Island, New York: Bantam, Chapter 7, p. 101,[4]
      [] We spent an hour in a hazel copse, picking primroses and looking at the little white windflowers. One doesn’t pick the windflowers,” he explained, “because in an hour they’re withered. []

Synonyms

  • wood anemone, European thimbleweed, smell fox

Translations

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anemone

English

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?), from ?????? (ánemos, wind) + matronymic suffix -??? (-?n?, daughter of the wind).

Or from Phoenician *????????????????? (*n?mn), akin to Arabic ???????? ????????????? (šaq??iq an-nu?m?n, anemones) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) ??????? ??????????? (nit'ei na'amanim, plants of pleasantness).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /??n?m.?.ni/
  • Rhymes: -?m?ni

Often metathesized as IPA(key): /??n?n.?.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

  1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
    • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:[1]
      Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all (...)
  2. A sea anemone.

Derived terms

  • anemonefish
  • sea anemone

Translations

References


Italian

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a?n?.mo.ne/

Noun

anemone m (plural anemoni)

  1. anemone

Derived terms

  • anemone di mare

See also

  • attinia

Further reading

  • anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ne?mo?.ne?/, [än??mo?ne?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ne?mo.ne/, [?n??m??n?]

Noun

anem?n? f (genitive anem?n?s); first declension

  1. windflower, anemone

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

References

  • anemone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • anemone in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ane?mone/, [a.ne?mo.ne]

Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)

  1. Alternative form of anémona

Further reading

  • “anemone” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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