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# magnolia

noun (a magnolia, magnolias; magnolia — a colour); adjective (magnolia walls)

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

## Everyday

1. A magnolia is a tree or bush with large, beautiful white, pink or purple flowers that often open in spring before the leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#m1)
2. Magnolia is also a pale creamy-white colour, often used for painting walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#m2)
3. The flower of this tree is also called a magnolia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and nature lessons magnolias are a flowering plant and one of the oldest kinds of flowering tree; in everyday life they grow in gardens and parks. In the UK, "magnolia" paint is famous as a plain, safe wall colour, so "magnolia walls" can mean a boring room. Phrases: "magnolia tree", "in bloom", "painted magnolia".

### Examples

- The magnolia in our front garden is covered in pink flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x1)
- Magnolia flowers are big and smell sweet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x2)
- The new flat had magnolia walls everywhere. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x3)
- We painted the hall magnolia because Dad didn't like bright colours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x4)
- Bees crawled into the magnolia blossoms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x5)
- Magnolias are some of the oldest flowering plants on Earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x6)
- Petals from the magnolia covered the path like snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x7)
- She held out to him a big white magnolia leaf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x8)

### Note

Countable for the tree or flower (magnolias); uncountable for the colour. The word comes from a person's name (a French botanist called Magnol). Magnolia trees are famous in the southern USA; "Magnolia State" is a nickname for Mississippi.

## On Mova

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