Pelargonium Definition

pelärgōnēəm
noun
Any of a genus (Pelargonium) of mostly South African plants of the geranium family, having circular or lobed, often aromatic, leaves and variously colored flowers.
Webster's New World

An extract of the rose geranium, Pelargonium sidoides, used as an alternative medicine.

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  • genus Pelargonium

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Noun

Singular:
pelargonium
Plural:
pelargoniums

Pelargonium Sentence Examples

  • The characteristic genus Pelargonium has a few Mediterranean representatives, and one even occurs in Asia Minor.

  • Tropacolum takes the place of the nearly allied South African Pelargonium.

  • In Pelargonium the flower is zygomorphic with a spurred posterior sepal and the petals differing in size or shape.

  • In Erodium the members of the outer whorl are reduced to scale-like structures (staminodes), and in Pelargonium from two to seven only are fertile.

  • Amongst the indoor plants which may be so treated, Bouvardia, Pelargonium, 1 ?.

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