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# hydrangea

«hydrangea» in Mova's school dictionary: **A garden bush with large round heads of small flowers in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hydrangea, hydrangeas)

### meaning for a pupil

A garden bush with large round heads of small flowers in blue, pink, purple or white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In gardens and science lessons: the flower colour depends on the soil; acid soil makes blue flowers, chalky (alkaline) soil makes pink ones. Phrases: a hydrangea bush, blue hydrangeas.

### examples

- Gran's hydrangeas are bright blue this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x1)
- Hydrangeas like shade and lots of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x2)
- In acid soil, hydrangeas turn blue; in chalky soil, they turn pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x3)
- We picked a big pink hydrangea for the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x4)
- The hydrangea flowers are dry and papery in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x5)
- Hydrangea leaves are poisonous if eaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydrangea/#x6)

### note

Say hy-DRAIN-ja. Plural hydrangeas. A real-life pH indicator, like red cabbage. Not for pets or people to eat.

### In the corpora

- [Hydrangeas turn blue in acidic soil and stay pink in alkaline soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/37-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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