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HANGING GERANIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hanging geranium mean? 

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

1. a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HANGING GERANIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hanging geranium; ivy-leaved geranium; ivy geranium; Pelargonium peltatum

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

geranium (any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae)

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

genus Pelargonium; Pelargonium (geraniums native chiefly to South Africa; widely cultivated)


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