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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Missy crumpled the fragrant rose-geranium reflectively between her fingers.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • 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

  • 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

  • It was just like Aunt Isabel to have rose-geranium in her finger-bowls!

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

  • 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

  • Mrs. Jackson's rose-geranium had blossomed just in the nick of time, and

    The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Page 39 white cape-jasmines set in rose-geranium leaves.

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

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