azalea

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After to-night I shall not see my ward again They were standing near the azalea, and Regina suddenly put her hand on the back of a chair.

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  1. noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Rhododendron having showy, variously colored flowers.

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  • Then the air is so delightfully perfumed with azalea, hawthorn, and lilac, and the nightingales sing so beautifully on the opposite banks, that it is difficult to come in at all PUTNEY HOUSE, April 30, 1840 Finished my beloved “Sir Samuel Romilly.” It is a book that everybody, especially men, should immediately read and meditate upon. —  Lady John Russell
  • No veranda, no azalea-masked railings, no smooth gray-painted boards underfoot. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
  • And how tough they were—they survived the climate shifts and chemical attacks while the crape-myrtles and azalea, the songbirds, those little green frogs that stuck to windows, they all died. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • In all defiance of the early spring chill, a riot of flowers bloomed: spikenard and foxglove, azalea, Lady's slipper and Love-Not-Lost, orchids and phlox, lavender and roses. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Constructed of brick from nearby Swann Island, the azalea-white house, covered with tabby and stucco scored to look like stone, boasted the quintessentially sweeping double veranda and arched masonry foundation. —  Ross, JoAnn - Stewart Sisters 03 - Out Of The Storm.html
 

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  1. Greek azaleā, from feminine of azaleos, dry (so called because it grows in dry soil or from the texture of its wood); see as- in Indo-European roots.
 

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