Definitions for Geranium

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Geranium ge·ra·ni·um

Spelling: [ji-rey-nee-uh m]

IPA: /dʒɪˈreɪ ni əm/

Geranium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 387 anagrams from letters in Geranium (aegimnru).

Definitions for Geranium

noun

1. any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
2. the wild geranium, G. maculatum, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of lavender flowers.
3. Also called stork's-bill. any of various plants of the allied genus Pelargonium, native to southern Africa, having showy flowers or fragrant leaves, widely cultivated in gardens and as houseplants.
4. a flower of this plant.
5. a vivid red color.

Origin of Geranium

1540-50; New Latin, for Latin geranion Greek geránion name for various plants the fruit of which was thought to resemble a crane's bill, derivative of géranos crane;

Examples for Geranium

Sometimes the calyx is covered with down, as in geranium, primrose, etc.

He digs holes in the geranium bed to bury the bones you give him.

The few bursts of color were provided by furry pumps in geranium.

Scarlet for geranium; a larger portion of the scarlet with the crimson.

It is not clear what point is referred to under geranium pyrenaicum.

He secured a berth on the geranium, sailing from Liverpool, and cabled Brant to that effect.

I can tell a geranium, when I see it, and I know a heliotrope by the smell.

The first time I saw him he was digging in your geranium bed.

To-day she had contrived to pick up some geranium blossoms, scarlet and pink.

Call her the—the 'geranium'—the 'Sunflower'—what's the name of that doll baby of yours?