Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous shrub (Rhododendron canadense) in the heath family, native to northeast North America, having rose-purple flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former genus of Ericaceæ, now included in Rhododendron, section Azalea, but still giving name to the tribe Rhodoreæ.
- noun It was set apart chiefly on account of its prominently two-lipped flower, of which the lower lip consists of two petals, completely separate, or much more nearly so than the three divisions of the upper lip. There was but one species. See def. 2.
- noun [lowercase] A low deciduous shrub, Rhododendron Rhodora (Rhodora Canadensis), a native of cold and wet wooded places from Pennsylvania northward, often covering acres with its delicate rosy flowers, which appear before the leaves.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It describes a flower, the rhodora, which is a flower that grows in the middle of swamps, and before it blooms, it’s gray, with hairy-like things covering it.
Rhodora barbylon 2000
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It describes a flower, the rhodora, which is a flower that grows in the middle of swamps, and before it blooms, it’s gray, with hairy-like things covering it.
Rhodora barbylon 2000
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Lots of apple trees blooming, the ornamental and the functional and the feral, more rhodora, and a good scattering of wild mustard in the fields.
Frost? jhetley 2009
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The glacial till barrens are a mosaic of shrublands with scattered pitch pines variously dominated by scrub oak (Quercus ilicifolia), sheep-laurel (Kalimia angustifolia), and rhodora (Rhododendron canadense); a small proportion of the barrens consists of pitch pine woodlands.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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No rhodora blooming yet, even though their cousin azaleas have been in flower for a couple of weeks.
Enticing spam? jhetley 2008
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The flower pictured in a photo caption accompanying the Science Journal column on Friday was a wild pink, also known as a Carolina pink (Silene caroliniana), not a rhodora, as incorrectly stated.
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More rhodora and calla blooming in the bog, ornamental rhododendrons starting to bloom.
Let it be noted jhetley 2008
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Callas sighted in the bog, chokecherries or black cherries blooming, more rhodora.
Tuesday no-roadkill report jhetley 2008
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More rhodora blooming in the wetlands, Canada mayflower actually flowering in May, even if not in Canada, some trout lily and trilliums.
Tuesday roadkill report jhetley 2007
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I walked against the current, following a wooded berm, thick with fir, that the river had created over time, cutting off a patch of bog land where early-budding blueberry and blackberry, and gray-black winterberry and tan winter maleberry, coexisted with spruce and larch and rhodora.
The Black Angel John Connolly 2005
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