Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Magnolia of the Western Hemisphere and Asia, having large, showy, often fragrant white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers, and widely cultivated as ornamentals.
- noun The flower of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, type of the natural order Magnoliaceœ and the tribe Magnolieœ, characterized by a sessile cone-shaped cluster of pistils, and two-ovuled persistent carpels which open down the back at maturity.
- noun [l. c] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.
- noun (Zoöl.) a beautiful North American wood warbler (
Dendroica maculosa ). The rump and under parts are bright yellow; the breast and belly are spotted with black; the under tail coverts are white; the crown is ash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tree orshrub in any species of thegenus Magnolia , many with large flowers andsimple leaves . - noun The
flower of a magnolia tree. - noun A native or resident of the American state of
Mississippi . - noun A creamy
white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers. - adjective Of a creamy
white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms
- noun dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Feb 22nd, 2010 at 12: 43 pm kcijones001: magnolia is pure crap … I dont get it.
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My star magnolia is showing a few pink buds that look ready to burst.
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Our odd spring, pushed back so that everything came together, has meant that many plants have been flowering alongside unlikely neighbours, and the magnolia was a good two weeks late.
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Anyway, the magnolia is a fairly nondescript tree for 50 weeks of the year and, more importantly, it's taking up too much room and blocking out the light from the other plants.
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Beside the magnolia is a nicely landscaped driveway.
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Unlike white magnolia, which is peach-like and very light, champaca has a penetrating, smooth and rich aroma that is reminiscent of tea, spices, and a floral note that is often compared to orange blossom.
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Unlike white magnolia, which is peach-like and very light, champaca has a penetrating, smooth and rich aroma that is reminiscent of tea, spices, and a floral note that is often compared to orange blossom.
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I also have Fleur Imperiale, the limited edition for summer 2006 – pleasantly based on myrrh like Fleur de Shanghai, but lacking the unique sweetness of magnolia, which is replaced but a much less significant or authentic osmanthus and apricot blossoms.
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EHRLICH: The magnolia is the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi.
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EHRLICH: The magnolia is the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi so we've got one and we've got 144 of them which we're going to give to presenters and performers on the show.
knitandpurl commented on the word magnolia
"The man who has become completely deaf cannot even heat a pan of milk by his bedside without having to keep an eye open to watch, on the tilted lid, fr the white hyperborean reflexion, like that of a coming snowstorm, which is the premonitory sign it is wise to obey by cutting off (as the Lord stilled the waves) the electric current; for already the fitfully swelling egg of the boiling milk is reaching its climax in a series of sidelong undulations, puffs out and fills a few drooping sails that had been puckered by the cream, sending a nacreous spinnaker bellying out in the hurricane, until the cutting off of the current, if the electric storm is exorcised in time, will make them all twirl round on themselves and scatter like magnolia petals."
--The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 94-95 of the Modern Library paperback edition
August 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word magnolia
Owww! Brain hurts!
August 4, 2008