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- noun Plural form of
cranesbill .
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Examples
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Nearby were cranesbills, wild geraniums with leaves of many teeth and five-petaled reddish-pink flowers, that grew into fruits that resembled the bills of cranes.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Unlike the hardy cranesbills, this geranium can't survive a winter at less than 5C.
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