RHODODENDRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhododendron mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHODODENDRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

coast rhododendron; Rhododendron californicum (medium-sized rhododendron of Pacific coast of North America having large rosy brown-spotted flowers)

Rhododendron maxima; rosebay (late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers)

Rhododendron viscosum; swamp azalea; swamp honeysuckle; white honeysuckle (shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle)

azalea (any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors)

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

genus Rhododendron (large genus of evergreen shrubs native to cooler regions of the northern hemisphere having showy flowers)

 Context examples 

I crouched down among the bushes on the other side, and crawled from one to the other—witness the disreputable state of my trouser knees—until I had reached the clump of rhododendrons just opposite to your bedroom window.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)