Geranium
[dʒɪ'reɪnɪəm] or [dʒə'renɪəm]
Definition
(n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.
(n.) A cultivated pelargonium.
Checker: Newman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cranesbill.
Checker: Rosalind
Definition
n. a genus of plants with seed-vessels like a crane's bill.
Checked by Joseph
Examples
- It was rather a singular one,--a brilliant scarlet geranium, and one single white japonica, with its glossy leaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The bar window displayed a choice collection of geranium plants, and a well-dusted row of spirit phials. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then Jip laid hold of a bit of geranium with his teeth, and worried imaginary cats in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He came in, too, to look at a famous geranium we had, in the parlour-window. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Certainly; she is fonder of geraniums, and seems more docile, though not so fine a figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I could water plants in a green-house and pick off dead leaves from the geraniums. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It contained quite a show of beautiful geraniums. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A spiky green plant filled each pot, and below the verandah ran a wide border of blue hydrangeas edged with more red geraniums. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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