The English name for a common wild species of Crane's-bill or Geranium (G. Robertianum), with divided leaves and light reddish purple flowers.

A herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Erodium (family Geraniaceae), esp. E. cicutarium, having a long, thin, pointed seed pod (obsolete). Cf. hero…

Dove's-foot, a small species of wild Geranium.

A plant of the genus Geranium (a cranesbill) or Erodium (a storksbill). Obsolete. rare.

Botany. A name for the various species (esp. the native British species) of the genus Geranium; so called from the long slender beak of the fruit.

the plant Geranium molle, and some other small species of cranesbill.

A genus of herbaceous plants or undershrubs (family Geraniaceæ, of which it is the type), growing wild in temperate regions, and bearing a fruit…

†(a) Geranium, (b) Scandix pecten-veneris (family Apiaceae, formerly Umbelliferae).

The bloody cranesbill, Geranium sanguineum. Obsolete. rare.

Any of various medicinal plants; esp. hedge hyssop, Gratiola officinalis, and several cranesbills (Geranium species). Cf. grace of God, n. 2.

= bloodroot, n.

(a) either of two cranesbills, dove's-foot cranesbill, Geranium molle, and long-stalked cranesbill, G. columbinum; also pigeon's-foot cranesbill; (b)…

(a) (probably) the pencilled cranesbill, Geranium versicolor; (b) a southern European storksbill, Erodium acaule.

Chiefly English regional. Any of several plants commonly found in hedgerows, esp. ones having red or pink flowers, as red campion (Silene dioica)…

In singular and plural. English regional and Welsh English. Herb Robert, Geranium robertianum, the stems of which are usually dark red. rare.

Often with distinguishing word: any of various plants having a musky smell, such as musk stork's-bill, musk hyacinth, musk mallow, etc. (see…

herb Robert, Geranium robertianum (family Geraniaceae); cf. ragged robin, n. 1.

†(a) = pigeon's-foot n. (a) at compounds 3 (obsolete); (b) U.S. a glasswort, esp. Salicornia europaea.

any of several geraniums with a scent of roses, esp. Pelargonium capitatum and P. graveolens, or their cultivated varieties; (also) a perfume…

(a) a flower growing in mountainous country; †(b) English regional (Northumberland), the wood cranesbill, Geranium sylvaticum (obsolete).

Geranium sylvaticum, a wild species with light purple flowers.

having the scent of peppermint, esp. in peppermint-scented geranium = peppermint geranium n.

A plant of the genus Pelargonium (N.O. Geraniaceæ).

= geranium, n. 2.

= musk stork's-bill n.

either of two European species of storksbill, Erodium cicutarium and E. moschatum, that are naturalized in the south-western United States and…

English regional (Devon). = herb Robert, n. Obsolete. rare.

(see quot. 1857).

Either of two plants with deep purple flowers, both native to Europe and cultivated elsewhere: (a) dusky cranesbill, Geranium phaeum, of central…

= pin grass n. at pin, n.1 compounds 2.

Having quinquangular leaves like those of the common ivy.

the procumbent Ivy-leaved Pelargonium.

Horticulture. Chiefly with capital initial. A regal pelargonium (see sense B. 4).

a white-flowered pelargonium, Pelargonium tomentosum, which has large downy leaves giving off a scent of peppermint and is grown as a house plant.