HOW TO PRONOUNCE
anemone
/əˈnɛməni/
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The final e is spoken.
Use four syllables, stressing NEM. The last syllable sounds like nee.
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“A colorful sea anemone.”
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noun
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- A sea anemone.
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/əˈnɛməni/
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Now, if the anemone stuck to him, it would be carried under the sand daily, to its own disgust.
When, for further investigation, they must needs go under completely, the anemone at the back shuts and protects the stigmata.
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The hyacinth, narcissus, tulip and anemone, ranunculus and various lily bulbs, will bloom in good season planted at this time.
Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, (1) while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.
Apropos of Omar's Red Roses in Stanza xix, I am reminded of an old English Superstition, that our Anemone Pulsatilla, or purple "Pasque Flower," (which grows plentifully about the Fleam Dyke, near Cambridge,) grows only where Danish Blood has been spilt.