gerania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some gerania, aloes, ficoids, &c. which are propagated from a leaf either artificially planted or even dropping from the parent plant, reſemble the tænia whoſe joints or whoſe veſicles are ſeparated and form a perfect animal: yet each is alſo propagated in the ordinary way from an egg or ſeed; and we need not, without neceſſity, have recourſe to ſuch indiſcriminate arbitrary methods of cutting the knot which we may be able to untie.
ref: 1799, The Critical Review; Or, Annals of Literature, volume 26, London: S. Hamilton, page 184:
text: During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.
ref: 1838, The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 4, page 155:
text: Gerania were blooming in occasional window-boxes. Their flowers, Fenner said, colour of the blood of the bourgeoisie.
ref: 1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, page 124:
text: Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.
ref: a. 2002, John McGrath, John McGrath: Plays for England, University of Exeter Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 329:
text: Geraniums - I found a rose geranium that smells heavenly and is quite attractive in its own stout, shrubby sorta way -- and then it died because I overwatered the crap out of it. Gerania are much tougher than you think they oughta be, with their sissified pretty flower crap and the nice smells. But tough. Wonderfully tough.
ref: 2004 September 21, mroo philpott-smythe, “Re: Ot: Gardening, Flowers”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet), message-ID <414FF453.2080106@idiom.com>:
text: > > Get in the geraniums. I heard on the weather forecast that Spring has / ... / > Don't forget the plants. / The gerania stopped outside and are doing fine. They are much tougher than are usually creditted.^([sic])
ref: 2005 April 10, Paul Leyland, “Re: Put your winter woolies back on”, in uk.misc (Usenet), message-ID <m3vf6vt11l.fsf@athlon.chez-leyland.com>:
text: Pffffft. Spring sprang here months ago. The daffodils of February. / Martha Washington gerania are blooming right now. Also the inaptly named iceplants.
ref: 2008 April 26, TammyM, “Re: A sign of spring!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <fuvm4o$g68$1@skeeter.ucdavis.edu>:
text: The only thing i know for certain is that the Wild Gerania are in bloom.
ref: 2008 May 17, PrivateCitizen_dudley, “Re: Einstein did not play dice with reality”, in rec.music.dylan (Usenet), message-ID <557c9710-62cf-4f97-befd-3aa4d0d2892b@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>:
text: There had been geraniums in the window box, planted by the previous tenant, who, like her, had been a research fellow in philosophy, and had confessed that the geraniums were the only things she had ever planted in her life. ‘All I leave behind me,’ she had said, ‘are some gerania,’ and laughed.
ref: 2008, Alexander McCall Smith, The Comfort of Saturdays, →ISBN:
text: Markos was admiring some gerania that his mother had asked him to move into the sunshine to catch the warmth.
ref: 2014, Victoria Hislop, The Sunrise, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of geranium