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Yes. The word anemone is a Scrabble US word. The word anemone is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

ANEMONE,

5-letter words (4 found)

AMENE,ENEMA,MEANE,NOMEN,

4-letter words (25 found)

AEON,AMEN,ANNO,ANON,EOAN,MANE,MANO,MEAN,MENE,MENO,MOAN,MONA,NAME,NANE,NANO,NEEM,NEMA,NEMN,NENE,NEON,NOMA,NOME,NONA,NONE,OMEN,

3-letter words (25 found)

AME,ANE,ANN,EAN,EEN,EME,EMO,ENE,EON,MAE,MAN,MEE,MEN,MNA,MOA,MOE,MON,NAE,NAM,NAN,NEE,NOM,NON,OMA,ONE,

2-letter words (16 found)

AE,AM,AN,EA,EE,EM,EN,MA,ME,MO,NA,NE,NO,OE,OM,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of anemone

anemone

Etymology

From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”).

Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈnɛm.ə.ni/
  • Rhymes: -ɛməni

Often metathesized as IPA(key): /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

  2. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
  3. A sea anemone.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).

Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)

  1. (botany) anemone
  2. (zoology) sea anemone
    Synonym: anemone de mar

Derived terms

  • anemone alpina

Further reading

  • “anemone” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin anemōnē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈnɛ.mo.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmone
  • Hyphenation: a‧nè‧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 ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmoː.neː/, [änɛˈmoːneː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmo.ne/, [äneˈmɔːne]

Noun

anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); 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): /aneˈmone/ [a.neˈmo.ne]
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Syllabification: 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

Source: wiktionary.org