n 1  :  a plant or flower of the genus Anemone  2  cap  :  a genus of herbs of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) widely distributed in temperate and subarctic regions that have lobed or divided often involucral leaves and showy flowers lacking petals but having showy sepals and that include some (as a pasqueflower) used medicinally esp. formerly .
 
 
 
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