AZALEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does azalea mean? 

• AZALEA (noun)
  The noun AZALEA has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors

  Familiarity information: AZALEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZALEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("azalea" is a kind of...):

rhododendron (any shrub of the genus Rhododendron: evergreen shrubs or small shrubby trees having leathery leaves and showy clusters of campanulate (bell-shaped) flowers)

Holonyms ("azalea" is a member of...):

Azaleastrum; subgenus Azalea; subgenus Azaleastrum (group of evergreen or deciduous shrubs formerly considered a separate genus; now included in the genus Rhododendron)

 Context examples 

Having no ornaments fine enough for this important occasion, Amy looped her fleecy skirts with rosy clusters of azalea, and framed the white shoulders in delicate green vines.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was fine open walking here, upon the summit; our way lay a little downhill, for, as I have said, the plateau tilted towards the west. The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot sunshine.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)