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- n. Plural form of magnolia.
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“It has vineyards producing champagne that never reaches our stores and trees called magnolias that we read about in Somerset Maugham novels.”
“The Bradford pears are nearly over; the magnolias are already dropping blossoms.”
“Althouse: "The Santaland Diaries, Tuesdays With Morrie, and anything with the word 'magnolias'...”
“The Santaland Diaries, Tuesdays With Morrie, and anything with the word 'magnolias'...”
“With that and other donations, the group has been able to purchase a variety of shade trees such as magnolias, pecans and live oaks to plant in the right of way in front of houses on the East End. Texas ebony trees, which, ironically, weren't available in Texas, are being trucked in from Arizona.”
“Many gardeners take the description "evergreen" too literally and often are concerned when evergreens, such as magnolias, euonymus, live oak, gardenia and some of the hollies, lose some of their old leaves during late spring and early summer.”
“Morandi, I confess, I can take or leave, but — between appointments, and skirting the south side of the Capitol on foot, admiring the huge, glossy magnolias — Mark and I sought out Golden Seams, andI am hugely glad that we did.”
“Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh … (July 3, 2008)”
“Sisko breathed in deeply, and though the magnolias would not bloom until springtime, their citrusy scent returned to him in memory.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“But I have work to do, and this rain, this rain that is not a delicate mist, that does not give the cherry blossoms their fine sheen – that is, if there were cherry blossoms; there are not yet any cherry blossoms here, nor magnolias, nor forsythia and such – is a heavy rain, and I should have to put on my boots.”
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