geranium

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The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized--why don't you call the figures so?

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having palmately divided leaves and pink or purplish flowers. Also called cranesbill.
  2. noun Any of various plants of the genus Pelargonium, native chiefly to southern Africa and widely cultivated for their rounded, often variegated leaves and showy clusters of red, pink, or white flowers. Also called storksbill.
  3. noun A strong to vivid red.

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  1. New Latin Geranium, genus name, from Latin geranium, crane's-bill, from Greek geranion, diminutive of geranos, crane; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin Geranium, from Greek γεράνιον, geranium, crane′s-bill, so called in reference to the long projecting beak of the seed-capsule, from γέρανος, a crane, = English crane, q. v.
 

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