magnolia : Idioms & Phrases

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chinese magnolia

  • noun large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers; native to Asia; prized as an ornamental in eastern North America
    Chinese magnolia; Magnolia soulangiana.
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evergreen magnolia

  • noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
    Magnolia grandiflora; bull bay; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
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genus magnolia

  • noun shrubs or trees of North America or Asia having entire evergreen or deciduous leaves; among most ancient of angiosperm genera
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large-flowering magnolia

  • noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
    Magnolia grandiflora; bull bay; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
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large-leaved magnolia

  • noun large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base
    large-leaved magnolia; great-leaved macrophylla; large-leaved cucumber tree.
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magnolia acuminata

  • noun American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber
    cucumber tree.
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magnolia family

  • noun subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia
    family Magnoliaceae; Magnoliaceae.
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magnolia fraseri

  • noun small erect deciduous tree with large leaves in coiled formations at branch tips
    earleaved umbrella tree.
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magnolia grandiflora

  • noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
    Magnolia grandiflora; bull bay; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
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magnolia macrophylla

  • noun large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base
    large-leaved magnolia; great-leaved macrophylla; large-leaved cucumber tree.
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magnolia soulangiana

  • noun large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers; native to Asia; prized as an ornamental in eastern North America
    Chinese magnolia; Magnolia soulangiana.
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magnolia state

  • noun a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
    Mississippi; MS.
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magnolia stellata

  • noun deciduous shrubby magnolia from Japan having fragrant white starlike flowers blooming before leaves unfold; grown as an ornamental in United States
    Magnolia stellata.
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magnolia tripetala

  • noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
    elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood; umbrella tree.
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magnolia virginiana

  • noun shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States
    sweet bay; swamp bay; swamp laurel.
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Magnolia warbler

  • (Zoöl.), a beautiful North American wood warbler (Dendroica maculosa). The rump and under parts are bright yellow; the breast and belly are spotted with black; the under tail coverts are white; the crown is ash.
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saucer magnolia

  • noun large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers; native to Asia; prized as an ornamental in eastern North America
    Chinese magnolia; Magnolia soulangiana.
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southern magnolia

  • noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
    Magnolia grandiflora; bull bay; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
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star magnolia

  • noun deciduous shrubby magnolia from Japan having fragrant white starlike flowers blooming before leaves unfold; grown as an ornamental in United States
    Magnolia stellata.
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umbrella magnolia

  • noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
    elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood; umbrella tree.
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