OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17524

anemone

/əˈnɛm.ə.ni/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anemona • anemone • anémona
Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.
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 forgetmen…
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