GERANIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geranium mean? 

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

1. any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERANIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geranium"):

crane's bill; cranesbill (any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium)

Pelargonium graveolens; rose geranium; sweet-scented geranium (any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and pink flowers)

bedding geranium; fish geranium; Pelargonium hortorum; zonal pelargonium (an upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers)

hanging geranium; ivy-leaved geranium; ivy geranium; Pelargonium peltatum (a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers)

apple geranium; nutmeg geranium; Pelargonium odoratissimum (geranium with round fragrant leaves and small white flowers)

lemon geranium; Pelargonium limoneum (a common garden geranium with lemon-scented foliage)

heron's bill; storksbill (any of various plants of the genus Erodium)

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

family Geraniaceae; Geraniaceae; geranium family (chiefly herbaceous plants)

 Context examples 

Then Jip laid hold of a bit of geranium with his teeth, and worried imaginary cats in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Geranium oil is used primarily for its aromatic properties.

(Geranium Oil Algerian Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The essential oil extracted from the leaves of the ivy-leaved geranium, Pelargonium peltatum.

(Pelargonium Peltatum Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called geranium.

(Pelargonium, NCI Dictionary)

To this nest of comforts Fanny now walked down to try its influence on an agitated, doubting spirit, to see if by looking at Edmund's profile she could catch any of his counsel, or by giving air to her geraniums she might inhale a breeze of mental strength herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That looks too pretty to eat, he said, smiling with pleasure, as Jo uncovered the dish, and showed the blanc mange, surrounded by a garland of green leaves, and the scarlet flowers of Amy's pet geranium.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It contained quite a show of beautiful geraniums.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He came in, too, to look at a famous geranium we had, in the parlour-window.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The scent of a geranium leaf, at this day, strikes me with a half comical half serious wonder as to what change has come over me in a moment; and then I see a straw hat and blue ribbons, and a quantity of curls, and a little black dog being held up, in two slender arms, against a bank of blossoms and bright leaves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)