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# geranium

«geranium» in Mova's school dictionary: **A garden or pot plant with bright red, pink, white or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (geranium, geraniums)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A garden or pot plant with bright red, pink, white or purple flowers and round, often furry leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#m1)

2) A wild plant of the same family, also called cranesbill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «geranium» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geranium/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.