gerania

English

Noun

gerania

1. plural of geranium
   • 1799, The Critical Review; Or, Annals of Literature, volume 26, London: S. Hamilton, page 184:

     Some gerania, aloes, ficoids, &c. which are propagated from a leaf either artificially planted or even dropping from the parent plant, reſemble the tænia whoſe joints or whoſe veſicles are ſeparated and form a perfect animal: yet each is alſo propagated in the ordinary way from an egg or ſeed; and we need not, without neceſſity, have recourſe to ſuch indiſcriminate arbitrary methods of cutting the knot which we may be able to untie.

   • 1838, The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 4, page 155:

     During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.

   • 1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, page 124:

     Gerania were blooming in occasional window-boxes. Their flowers, Fenner said, colour of the blood of the bourgeoisie.

   • a. 2002, John McGrath, John McGrath: Plays for England, University of Exeter Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 329:

     Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.

   • 2004 September 21, mroo philpott-smythe, “Re: Ot: Gardening, Flowers”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet), message-ID <414FF453.2080106@idiom.com>:

     Geraniums - I found a rose geranium that smells heavenly and is quite attractive in its own stout, shrubby sorta way -- and then it died because I overwatered the crap out of it. Gerania are much tougher than you think they oughta be, with their sissified pretty flower crap and the nice smells. But tough. Wonderfully tough.

   • 2005 April 10, Paul Leyland, “Re: Put your winter woolies back on”, in uk.misc (Usenet), message-ID <m3vf6vt11l.fsf@athlon.chez-leyland.com>:

     > > Get in the geraniums. I heard on the weather forecast that Spring has  / ... / > Don't forget the plants. / The gerania stopped outside and are doing fine. They are much tougher than are usually creditted.^[sic]

   • 2008 April 26, TammyM, “Re: A sign of spring!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <fuvm4o$g68$1@skeeter.ucdavis.edu>:

     Pffffft. Spring sprang here months ago. The daffodils of February. / Martha Washington gerania are blooming right now. Also the inaptly named iceplants.

   • 2008 May 17, PrivateCitizen_dudley, “Re: Einstein did not play dice with reality”, in rec.music.dylan (Usenet), message-ID <557c9710-62cf-4f97-befd-3aa4d0d2892b@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>:

     The only thing i know for certain is that the Wild Gerania are in bloom.

   • 2008, Alexander McCall Smith, The Comfort of Saturdays, →ISBN:

     There had been geraniums in the window box, planted by the previous tenant, who, like her, had been a research fellow in philosophy, and had confessed that the geraniums were the only things she had ever planted in her life. ‘All I leave behind me,’ she had said, ‘are some gerania,’ and laughed.

   • 2014, Victoria Hislop, The Sunrise, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     Markos was admiring some gerania that his mother had asked him to move into the sunshine to catch the warmth.

Anagrams

• anergia, enargia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡeˈra.ni.a/, [ɡɛˈräniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeˈra.ni.a/, [d͡ʒeˈräːniä]

Noun

gerania n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of geranion/geranium