Definition of Pelarganium
||Pel`ar*go"ni*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?; a stork.] (Bot.) A large genus of plants of the order
Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred
calyx and an irregular corolla.
&fist; About one hundred and seventy species are known, nearly all
of them natives of South Africa, and many having very beautiful
blossoms. See the Note under Geranium.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Pelargonium, commonly called geraniums.
Pelargonium
Translingual
- (botany) a botanical name at the rank of genus. Circumscription of the genus will vary with taxonomic viewpoint.
- an extract of the rose geranium, Pelargonium sidoides, used as an alternative medicine
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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