pelargonium

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From translingual Pelargonium, from Ancient Greek πελαργός (pelargós, “stork”).

Red tulips would bloom between the boulders; exquisite glowing pelargoniums and snow-white or pale-blue iris would clothe the baked earth. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
They would revel for the last time in the beauty of Iraku and the Happy Valley, their Crowned cranes and pea-fowl, their tame gazelles and duikers, their quaint menagerie of monkeys; their wonderful flower garden--Iraku grew everything: orchids and mignonette, roses and lilies, petunias and pelargoniums, Strelitsia reginae and Disa uniflora.... — The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance, Harry Johnston
Outside the thunder rain fell, straight as ramrods, in big globular drops, which spattered upon the gray quarries and splashed on the pink and lilac, lemon-yellow, scarlet and orange of the pot plants,--hydrangeas, pelargoniums, and early-flowering chrysanthemums,--set, three deep, along the base of the house wall, the whole length of the terrace front. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet

genus Pelargonium

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