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geranium|dʒəˈreɪnɪəm|
Also 6–7 -ion.
[a. L. geranium, -ion, a. Gr. γεράνιον, f. γέρανος crane.]
1. A genus of herbaceous plants or undershrubs (family Geraniaceæ, of which it is the type), growing wild in temperate regions, and bearing a fruit similar in shape to the bill of a crane; a plant of this genus or its flower.
1548Turner Names of Herbes D iij, Geranium is of two kyndes. The one kynde is called Pinke nedle or Cranes byl. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxxii. 45 The first kinde of Geranion or Storckes bill, his leaues are cut and iagged in many peeces. 1601Holland Pliny II. 259 The herb Geranion, which some call Myrrhis, others Merthrys, is like vnto Hemlocke. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. 67 May..Flowers in Prime, or yet lasting..Gladiolus, Geranium [etc.]. 1725Byrom Lit. Rem. (1854) I. i. 163 Mr. ― produced the plants from Chelsea Garden, all geraniums, neatly pasted on sheets of white paper. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. 332 A fruit composed of five grains and beaked; whence its names of Geranium and Crane's bill. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. 15 Among blue geranium and golden globe-flower.
2. A plant of the genus Pelargonium (family Geraniaceæ), natives of S. Africa, of which many varieties are cultivated in Great Britain, esp. the Scarlet Geranium and the so-called Fancy Geranium or Pelargonium.
1760Shenstone Wks. & Lett. III. 315 An antique vase is introduced with a flower and two or three leaves of the scarlet Geranium. 1796C. Marshall Garden. (1813) 386 Shifting geraniums should generally take place once a year from smaller pots into..bigger. 1809H. More Cœlebs I. xii. 160 Snatching up a wreath of various coloured geraniums. 1873H. E. H. King Disciples, Ugo Bassi (1877) 65 The red geraniums blazed in banks breast-high. 1890‘Lyth’ Golden South 155 Geraniums are grown as hedges.
3. Med. (U.S. Pharm.) The rhizome of G. maculatum used as an astringent (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1854).
4. The colour of the scarlet geranium.
1842L. S. Costello Pilgr. Auvergne II. 158 Rich coloured aprons and handkerchiefs, scarlet and geranium prevailing amongst them. 1895Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 1/2 Colour seemed chiefly to run on that blending of purple and geranium which was even a little overdone last year.
5. With defining word, applied to plants of other genera (see quots.).
1866Treas. Bot. 528/2 Indian Geranium, a term used by perfumers for Andropogon Nardus. Nettle Geranium, a popular name for Coleus fruticosus.
6. attrib. and Comb., as geranium-coloured, geranium-red.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 184/2 Mrs. Bloss..was dressed in a geranium-coloured muslin gown. 1894Daily News 29 Sept. 6/5 The whole of this overlapping front is in black fretwork over geranium red.
Hence geˈraniumed ppl. a. [+ -ed2], having the colour of a scarlet geranium.
1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & H. 76 Pouting and geranium'd lips. |