geranium : Idioms & Phrases

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apple geranium

  • noun geranium with round fragrant leaves and small white flowers
    Pelargonium odoratissimum; apple geranium.
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bedding geranium

  • noun an upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers
    bedding geranium; zonal pelargonium; Pelargonium hortorum.
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beefsteak geranium

  • noun any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers
    rex begonia; Begonia rex; king begonia; painted-leaf begonia.
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dove's foot geranium

  • noun western geranium with small pink flowers; a common weed on lawns and in vacant lots
    dove's foot geranium.
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feather geranium

  • noun Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
    Jerusalem oak; Chenopodium botrys; Atriplex mexicana; Mexican tea.
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fish geranium

  • noun an upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers
    bedding geranium; zonal pelargonium; Pelargonium hortorum.
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genus geranium

  • noun genus of mostly North American geraniums: cranesbills
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geranium family

  • noun chiefly herbaceous plants
    family Geraniaceae; Geraniaceae.
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geranium maculatum

  • noun common wild geranium of eastern North America with deeply parted leaves and rose-purple flowers
    Geranium maculatum; spotted cranesbill.
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geranium molle

  • noun western geranium with small pink flowers; a common weed on lawns and in vacant lots
    dove's foot geranium.
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geranium pratense

  • noun tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America
    meadow cranesbill.
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geranium richardsonii

  • noun geranium of western North America having branched clusters of white or pale pink flowers
    Geranium richardsonii.
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geranium robertianum

  • noun a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere
    herb roberts; herbs robert; herb robert.
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geranium viscosissimum

  • noun geranium of western North America having pinkish-purple flowers in open clusters
    Geranium viscosissimum.
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hanging geranium

  • noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
    hanging geranium; Pelargonium peltatum; ivy geranium.
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ivy geranium

  • noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
    hanging geranium; Pelargonium peltatum; ivy geranium.
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ivy-leaved geranium

  • noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
    hanging geranium; Pelargonium peltatum; ivy geranium.
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lemon geranium

  • noun a common garden geranium with lemon-scented foliage
    Pelargonium limoneum.
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mint geranium

  • noun tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
    balsam herb; alecost; bible leaf; Tanacetum balsamita; Chrysanthemum balsamita; costmary.
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nutmeg geranium

  • noun geranium with round fragrant leaves and small white flowers
    Pelargonium odoratissimum; apple geranium.
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richardson's geranium

  • noun geranium of western North America having branched clusters of white or pale pink flowers
    Geranium richardsonii.
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rock geranium

  • noun plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems
    Heuchera americana.
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rose geranium

  • noun any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and pink flowers
    Pelargonium graveolens; rose geranium.
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sticky geranium

  • noun geranium of western North America having pinkish-purple flowers in open clusters
    Geranium viscosissimum.
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Strawberry geranium

  • noun eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
    strawberry saxifrage; Saxifraga sarmentosam; mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga stolonifera.
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  • (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage (Saxifraga sarmentosa) having reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry.
Webster 1913

sweet-scented geranium

  • noun any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and pink flowers
    Pelargonium graveolens; rose geranium.
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wild geranium

  • noun common wild geranium of eastern North America with deeply parted leaves and rose-purple flowers
    Geranium maculatum; spotted cranesbill.
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