| Remarks |
'anemone', from Greek 'anemos', i.e., wind but may also come from an alteration of the Hebrew 'Na'aman', i.e., epithet applied to Adonis, the beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite from whose blood, according to Greek legend, the anemone sprang after he was killed while boar hunting; the application to sea anemone began in the late 18th century (p. 25, Ref. 11979); 'black', from Old English 'blæc', of obscure origins but probably related to Latin 'flagrare' and Greek 'phlégein', i.e., burn, from Indo-European 'phleg-, bhleg-' (p. 65 in Ref. 11979). |