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单词 geranium
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geraniumn.

/dʒəˈreɪnɪəm/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -ion.
Etymology: < Latin geranium, -ion, < Greek γεράνιον, < 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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > allied flowers
herb Roberta1300
stick pile?a1450
culverfootc1450
devil's needlea1500
crane's-bill1548
dove's-foot1548
geranium1548
shepherd's needle1562
bloodroot1578
Gratia Dei1578
sanguine root1578
pigeon's-foot1597
Roman cranesbill1648
robin1694
redshanka1722
musk1728
ragged Robert1734
pigeon-foot1736
rose geranium1773
mountain flowera1787
wood cranesbill1796
peppermint-scented geranium1823
stork's bill1824
wild geranium1840
musk geranium1845
pin grass1847
Robert1847
stinking crane's bill1857
mourning widow1866
pinweed1876
ivy-leaved pelargonium1887
ivy-geranium1894
regal1894
peppermint geranium1922
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iij Geranium is of two kyndes. The one kynde is called Pinke nedle or Cranes byl.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxii. 45 The first kinde of Geranion or Storckes bill, his leaues are cut and iagged in many peeces.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 259 The herb Geranion, which some call Myrrhis, others Merthrys, is like vnto Hemlocke.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 67 in Sylva May..Flowers in Prime..Gladiolus, Geranium.
1725 J. Byrom Jrnl. 24 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. i. 163 Mr. —— produced the plants from Chelsea Garden, all geraniums, neatly pasted on sheets of white paper.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiv. 336 A fruit composed of five grains, and beaked; whence its names of Geranium and Cranesbill.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 14 Among blue geranium, and golden globe-flower.
2. A plant of the genus Pelargonium (family Geraniaceæ), natives of South Africa, of which many varieties are cultivated in Great Britain, esp. the Scarlet Geranium and the so-called Fancy Geranium or Pelargonium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > geranium
canker1559
bloody cranesbill1634
geranium1760
scarlet geranium1760
pelargonium1813
Tom Thumb1847
fish geranium1865
1760 W. Shenstone Wks. & Lett. III. 315 An antique vase is introduced with a flower and two or three leaves of the scarlet Geranium.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) 386 Shifting geraniums should generally take place once a year from smaller pots into..bigger.
1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. xii. 160 Snatching up a wreath of various coloured geraniums.
1873 H. 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.
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3. Medicine (U.S. Pharmacology) The rhizome of G. maculatum used as an astringent (Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1854).
4. The colour of the scarlet geranium.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > bright red or scarlet
cockea1382
coccyn1382
coctin1382
vermiliona1400
scarlet-redc1405
sinoper1412
scarletc1440
sinople?c1450
vermeletc1530
lusty gallant1587
vermeil1590
vermeil red1590
minium1601
cinnabar?1614
cochineal1632
poppy red1679
poppy colour1705
cherry-colour1720
ponceau1782
Turkey red1789
pinkc1791
coquelicot1795
poppy1796
cherry-red1802
vermilion-red1815
cardinal scarlet1828
geranium1842
dahlia1846
cardinal red1850
cerise1858
cardinal1874
scarlet-crimson1882
vermilion-scarlet1882
pillar box1894
Turkish red1900
signal red1909
fuchsia1923
1842 L. S. Costello Pilgrimage Auvergne II. 158 Rich coloured aprons and handkerchiefs, scarlet and geranium prevailing amongst them.
1895 Westm. 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.).
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 528/2 Indian Geranium, a term used by perfumers for Andropogon Nardus. Nettle Geranium, a popular name for Coleus fruticosus.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as geranium-coloured, geranium-red.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > bright red or scarlet
scarletc1386
puniceousa1398
vermeilc1400
corala1522
Punic?1553
orient1578
vermilion1589
wax-red1593
cherry-red1594
Punical1606
coralline?1608
scarleted1641
coccineous1654
cinnabrianc1668
poppy-coloured1677
miniaceous1688
phoeniceous1688
cherry-coloured1695
coral-red1700
cardinal1755
cherried1762
ponceau1774
punicean1786
cinnabar1807
geraniumed1819
miniatous1826
cardinal scarlet1828
vermilion-coloured1835–6
geranium-coloured1836
pink1846
cardinal red1850
lobster-red1856
phoenicean1857
magenta1877
angered1878
scarlet-vermilion1882
tomato1889
camellia-red1890
miniate1891
nasturtium-red1896
sealing-wax1912
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 198 Mrs. Bloss..was dressed in a geranium-coloured muslin gown.
1894 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/5 The whole of this overlapping front is in black fretwork over geranium red.

Derivatives

geˈraniumed adj. [+ -ed suffix2] having the colour of a scarlet geranium.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > bright red or scarlet
scarletc1386
puniceousa1398
vermeilc1400
corala1522
Punic?1553
orient1578
vermilion1589
wax-red1593
cherry-red1594
Punical1606
coralline?1608
scarleted1641
coccineous1654
cinnabrianc1668
poppy-coloured1677
miniaceous1688
phoeniceous1688
cherry-coloured1695
coral-red1700
cardinal1755
cherried1762
ponceau1774
punicean1786
cinnabar1807
geraniumed1819
miniatous1826
cardinal scarlet1828
vermilion-coloured1835–6
geranium-coloured1836
pink1846
cardinal red1850
lobster-red1856
phoenicean1857
magenta1877
angered1878
scarlet-vermilion1882
tomato1889
camellia-red1890
miniate1891
nasturtium-red1896
sealing-wax1912
1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 76 Pouting and geranium'd lips.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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