What does anemone mean?
Word: Anemone
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Anemone means a small plant grown for its bright, cup-shaped flowers in colours such as red, purple or white.
Word origin: From a Greek word linked with anemos, 'wind', which is why the plant is also called a windflower.
How do you spell anemone?
Syllables: a - nem - o - ne
Tricky part: The m comes before the second n: many people swap them and write anenome.
Watch out for: anenome, anemmone
Memory tip: Say a-NEM-o-nee: the stressed beat holds the m, and the n waits for the ending.
Anemone in a sentence
Example 1: Grandmother's hill garden has a bed of purple anemone flowers.
Example 2: A single anemone in a small glass vase brightened the table.
Example 3: We saw a red anemone growing beside the lake in Kashmir.
Fun Fact
Clownfish shelter safely among the stinging tentacles of the sea anemone, which is an animal, not a plant.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word:
1. chrysanthemum 2. anemonie 3. magnolia 4. hollyhock
a) a garden plant with large, many-petalled blooms
b) a tree with large white or pink flowers
c) a low garden plant with dark-centred blooms
d) a very tall plant with flowers up its stem
Show answer
c) a low garden plant with dark-centred blooms. The word ends in ne with no i, and the three plant names beside it are fine.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
Bees circled the pots where an moenane had opened its purple petals.
a) aubergine
b) azalea
c) anemone
d) acacia
Show answer
c) anemone. Azalea has a z, acacia a c and aubergine a b, and none of those is in the jumble.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct letters to form a word:
an_m_ne
a) e, o
b) i, o
c) e, a
d) a, o
Show answer
a) e, o. An e comes after the n, and an o after the m.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
annemone
a) e
b) m
c) o
d) n
Show answer
d) n. One n follows the opening a.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which pair belongs in the same group as the anemone?
a) a daisy and a tulip
b) a sparrow and a crow
c) a beetle and a moth
d) a mango and a guava
Show answer
a) a daisy and a tulip
2. The sea creature called a sea anemone most likely got its name because ____.
a) it was found in a garden
b) it smells like the flower
c) it feeds only on flowers
d) it looks rather like the flower
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d) it looks rather like the flower
