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# geranium

noun (geranium, geraniums)

«geranium» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A garden or pot plant with bright red, pink, white or purple flowers and round, often furry leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#m1)
2. A wild plant of the same family, also called cranesbill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#m2)

### In the lessons

In nature and science lessons, geraniums are often used to study plant growth, cuttings and leaves. In everyday life they sit on window sills and balconies. Phrases: pot of geraniums, red geraniums, geranium cuttings.

### Examples

- Grandma keeps red geraniums on her window sill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x1)
- We took cuttings from the geranium and grew new plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x2)
- The geranium leaves smell like lemon when you rub them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x3)
- Water the geraniums when the soil is dry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x4)
- Wild geraniums grow along the edge of the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x5)
- The bees visited the pink geraniums all afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#x6)

### Note

Plural: geraniums. Pronounced je-RAY-nee-um. Many garden «geraniums» are really pelargoniums, a close relative, but everyone calls them geraniums.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «geranium» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«geranium» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/geranium.html) on Mova free.