Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anemone

2 senses of anemone

Sense 1
anemone, windflower -- (any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves)
       => flower -- (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Sense 2
sea anemone, anemone -- (marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton)
       => anthozoan, actinozoan -- (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)