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# magnolia

«magnolia» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tree or bush with large, beautiful white, pink or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#m2)

3) The flower of this tree is also called a magnolia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x1)
- Magnolia flowers are big and smell sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x2)
- The new flat had magnolia walls everywhere. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x4)
- Bees crawled into the magnolia blossoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x5)
- Magnolias are some of the oldest flowering plants on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x6)
- Petals from the magnolia covered the path like snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnolia/#x7)
- She held out to him a big white magnolia leaf. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

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