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cranesbill

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  • noun Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium found throughout the temperate zone.

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Examples

  • Then there are banks of heather with sandy patches underfoot, fringed by wetter ground of soft rush and wood cranesbill.

    Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

  • Then there are banks of heather with sandy patches underfoot, fringed by wetter ground of soft rush and wood cranesbill.

    Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

  • The grass around the grave was grazed to a springy shortness, a single clump of cranesbill grown up again from what the sheep had left behind.

    William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

  • I watched him loiter in the bloody cranesbill flowers at the base of the cliffs.

    Country diary: Durham coast Phil Gates 2010

  • The Himalayas are conjured up with a vertical rock garden, surrounded by pine trees and cranesbill.

    At British Museum, Kew's Gardeners Conjure Up India 2009

  • Only asters, goldenrod, milk-week, cranesbill and a few others are truly native.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • A suppository to help relieve and shrink hemorrhoids is made with a combination of finely powdered oak bark (Quercus species) (and/or witch hazel bark), cranesbill root (Geranium maculatum) and yarrow blossoms (Achillea millifolium).

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • I've got hedge parsley, comfrey, meadow cranesbill, primroses ... it's just like a country lane.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • More wonderfully still we see this "working together" in the seeding of the cranesbill.

    Parables of the Christ-life I. Lilias Trotter

  • See the tiny corkscrews of the pink geranium in our meadow (a miniature of its blue brother the cranesbill).

    Parables of the Christ-life I. Lilias Trotter

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  • treeseed commented on the word cranesbill

    " The cranesbills make up the genus Geranium of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

    The species Geranium viscosissimum is considered to be protocarnivorous.

    The name "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the seed-heads, which have the same shape as the bill of a crane. The genus name is derived from the Greek word geranos, meaning "crane". The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. Their rose, pink to blue or white flowers have 5 petals."

    _Wikipedia

    January 24, 2008

  • ruzuzu commented on the word cranesbill

    One of my favorites is 'Johnson's Blue.'

    February 1, 2011