Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Hydrangea, having opposite leaves and large, flat-topped or rounded clusters of white, pink, or blue flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of shrubs or herbs, of the natural order Saxifrageæ, type of the tribe Hydrangeæ, containing about 33 species, natives of Asia and America, characterized by having the ovary inferior, 4 or 5 valvate petals, 4 or 5 styles, free or connate at base, the fruit a capsule, and the leaves deciduous or persistent.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors.
Hydrangea hortensis , the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
shrubs , of the genusHydrangea , having largeclusters of white, pink or blueflowers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An oakleaf hydrangea is offset by golden Hakonechloa 'Aureola' grass and campanula. .the only things that don't suck in my garden right now.
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I do know the hydrangea is a beauty during that time anyway.
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I have to agree that the hydrangea is the best looking example of beauty in a dying flower.
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Here, in this soft and genial atmosphere, the hydrangea is a common flower-bed ornament, the fuchsia grows lofty and luxuriant in the poorest cottage garden, the myrtle flourishes close to the sea-shore, and the tender tamarisk is the wild plant of every farmer's hedge.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856
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These have significant fall colors, as do the oakleaf hydrangeas, H. quercifolia, which also is naturally taller than some others and is native to the southeastern U.S., as is the H. arborescens, smooth-leaf hydrangea, which is also found naturally in the eastern U.S. H. arborecens, var. "Annabelle," may have white blooms up to a foot in diameter.
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But you didn't embrace the idea of hydrangea in this photo shoot.
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But you didn't embrace the idea of hydrangea in this photo shoot.
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But you didn't embrace the idea of hydrangea in this photo shoot.
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But you didn't embrace the idea of hydrangea in this photo shoot.
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But you didn't embrace the idea of hydrangea in this photo shoot.
chained_bear commented on the word hydrangea
"Commerson found many new plant specimens on the trip, including two that would spread to the New World. He rewarded the Bodeuse's captain by giving his name to the gorgeous bougainvillea shrub with blossoms in luscious colors of lavender, coral, magenta, and cream. Commerson also introduced Europeans to the hydrangea, which he found in China."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 191
December 28, 2016