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geranium

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Gardening, Plants
ge·ra·ni·um /dʒəˈreɪniəm/ noun [countable]  DLGHBPa plant with red, pink, or white flowers and round leaves 天竺葵5 see picture at 见图 flower1
Examples from the Corpus
geraniumInstead he writes about his geraniums.It was your average London park, complete with flasher, park-keeper, geraniums, a bum-splintering see-saw and baby swings.Iron gates open to a courtyard filled with pots of geraniums and ivy tucked next to rusted bistro tables and chairs.And then, finally, he would have snapped off their arms and legs and used their torsos for planting geraniums.Having learned from that sage, I planted scented geraniums along the narrow part of the driveway.Well, she could, but it certainly wasn't the geranium.
Origin geranium (1500-1600) Latin Greek geranion, from geranos crane; because the plant's seed-case looks like a crane's long beak
ge·ra·ni·um nounChineseSyllable
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geranium
geranium /dʒəˈreɪniəm/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: Latin
 Origin: Greek geranion, from geranos 'crane'; because the plant's seed-case looks like a crane's long beak
a plant with red, pink, or white flowers and round leaves


ge·ra·niumBrE /dʒəˈreɪniəm/ 🔊NAmE /dʒəˈreɪniəm/ 🔊 nouna garden plant with a mass of red, pink or white flowers on the end of each stem 天竺葵;老鹳草