Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common house-plant, Pelargonium capitatum, with rose-scented leaves and small rose-purple flowers.
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Examples
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Indolic notes take the stage with jasmine and civet being the most prominent and only hingts or rose-geranium that give it a more complex, perfumey bouquet.
Kouros Ayala Sender 2008
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Indolic notes take the stage with jasmine and civet being the most prominent and only hingts or rose-geranium that give it a more complex, perfumey bouquet.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ayala Sender 2008
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Missy crumpled the fragrant rose-geranium reflectively between her fingers.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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And, after the orange, she had a finger-bowl with a little sprig of rose-geranium she could crunch between her fingers till it sent out a heavenly odour.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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One of the most beautiful I ever remember to have seen was scarlet verbenas with a base of rose-geranium leaves, the whole set in a small antique green-and-gold vase.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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It was just like Aunt Isabel to have rose-geranium in her finger-bowls!
Missy Dana Gatlin
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As we passed out, satisfied with the mutual inspection of our dresses of white silk, which were trimmed with bunches of rose-geranium, we saw a group of strangers close by us, buttoning their gloves, looking at their boots, and comparing looks.
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I remember that Miss Hemphill was holding a bit of rose-geranium in her hand while she spoke -- one of the patients had given it to her from a pot she kept in her room, and the scent of the flower is still in my nostrils -- or my memory.
The Shadowy Third 1923
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Mrs. Jackson's rose-geranium had blossomed just in the nick of time, and
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Page 39 white cape-jasmines set in rose-geranium leaves.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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