geranium
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While his fellow students spark to the winds of political change and sexual freedom, he becomes fixated on what a lone geranium, imaginatively monitored on its windowsill, might have to convey if given the chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
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
With the right container, simple is satisfying: Think of fat terra-cotta rounds overflowing with a single kind of scented-leafed geranium, or a yellow water lily floating in a cobalt blue urn.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 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
His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white....
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
Closer to our heads geraniums crowded in, giving off a smell somewhere between licorice and aluminum.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
