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geranium

[ji-rey-nee-uhm] / dʒɪˈreɪ ni əm /


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These microbes are known to contaminate white wine, causing spoilage and unpleasant odors, including nail polish remover, geranium and "mousy" odors.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

Try skirting the rose with Geranium Rozanne®, a hardy geranium that blooms from June until frost with waves of saturated purple-blue flowers.

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2023

To illustrate this, she collected a chocolate-scented geranium and invited a sniff.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2023

Ms. Wong claimed that essential oils containing lemon and geranium prevented the binding of the COVID-19 virus to human cells, and that “a lot of studies” showed oregano also worked against coronavirus.

From Washington Times Mar. 3, 2023

So every day began like that, me at one end of the crystal room, engulfed by geranium blooms, and this answering burst of red coming through the door.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He first alarms Dickens by attempting to kiss him and then infuriates him by harvesting geraniums from the garden.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Speaking surrounded by geraniums, he said he was happy to take any form of payment, although card was slightly easier albeit slower to process.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2025

And the plant orders that include geraniums and eucalyptus—once considered to be closely related—are in fact quite distant from each other.

From Science Magazine Apr. 23, 2024

You may find certain container annuals beginning to return with fewer frosts, like geraniums and calibrachoa.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2024

It was just like all the others, sad, flayed, and dirty, but there were two pots hanging by the door in which grew a few small tufts of geraniums, the flower of the poor.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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