What is another word for geraniums?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒəɹˈe͡ɪni͡əmz] (IPA)

Geraniums are beautiful flowering plants that are often found in gardens and outdoor spaces. However, if you want to mix up your language and sound more creative when describing these blooms, there are several synonyms you can use. For instance, you can refer to them as cranesbills, which is a commonly used term for the plant. Alternatively, you could also call them storksbills, which is another term that is widely used. Some people also use the term "filaree" to refer to geraniums, especially in certain parts of the world. Regardless of the synonym you choose, one thing is for sure - these flowering plants are lovely in any language!

What are the hypernyms for Geraniums?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Geraniums

The lamp was lit in the front room by the time he reached the house, and the shadows of geraniums which had won through several winters formed a straggling pattern on the holland blind.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
She took a third course, and, raising her eyebrows at the unnecessarily loud knocking with which the young man announced his arrival, retreated in good order into the garden, where her father, in a somewhat heated condition, was laboriously planting geraniums.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
A truly beautiful spot, where the gardens of the hotel run down to the lake's edge, with a long veranda covered with trailing roses and geraniums, peaceful indeed after the turmoil and glitter of our Court life in Germany.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux

Famous quotes with Geraniums

  • Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
    Jerry Stiller
  • Waiting is a battle against time. Waiting is time going by and it can be enjoyed, when we are in a privileged state of hope or looking forward. Conversely, waiting can be time wasted or killed, when we are in a state of distress and anguish. ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
    Erik Pevernagie
  • But the dwellers in the country have little understanding of, and therefore little sympathy with, the longing for green fields which haunts the dweller in towns. The secret dream of almost every inhabitant in those dusky streets where even a fresh thought would scarcely seem to enter, is to realise an independence, and go and live in the country. Where is every holiday spent but in the country ! What do the smoky geraniums, so carefully tended in many a narrow street and blind alley attest, but the inherent love of the country ! To whom do the blooming and sheltered villas, which are a national feature in English landscape, belong, but to men who pass the greater part of their lives in small dim counting-houses ! This love of nature is divinely given to keep alive, even in the most toiling and world-worn existence, something of the imaginative and the apart. It is a positive good quality ; and one good quality has some direct, or indirect tendency to produce another.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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