Definition of Fish geranium

1. Noun. An upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers.

Exact synonyms: Bedding Geranium, Pelargonium Hortorum, Zonal Pelargonium
Generic synonyms: Geranium
Group relationships: Genus Pelargonium, Pelargonium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Geranium

fish farm
fish farming
fish farms
fish filet
fish fillet
fish finger
fish fingers
fish flour
fish fly
fish food
fish for compliments
fish fry
fish fuddle
fish garth
fish genus
fish geranium (current term)
fish gig
fish gigs
fish glue
fish habitat
fish hawk
fish hawks
fish hook
fish hooks
fish house punch
fish joint
fish kettle
fish kettles
fish knife
fish knives

Literary usage of Fish geranium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The wonders of plant life under the microscope by Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick (1884)
"... which tlie an hers had disappeared ; A, The ordinary scarlet geranium—the fish geranium, as it is generally called—is a good illustration of dichogamy. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"fish geranium. Fig. 2836. Plant more velvety than P. zonale, sometimes more or less viscid, the Ivs. not zoned: Ivs. long-petioled, orbicular-reniform, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"fish geranium. Fig. 1698. Plant more velvety than P. zonale, sometimes more or less viscid, the leaves not zoned: calyx-tube densely glandular and viscid, ..."

4. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"fish geranium. Fig. 183. Stem somewhat succulent and hairy: leaves orbicular or reniform, crenate-lobed, often with bands of different colors: flowers in ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"... the bushes clambering over half-way up a three story brick house ; hedges of from six to eight feet high of pink and red fish geranium ; trees of Lemon ..."

6. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1842)
"We admire the vividness of his fancy and the glow of his imagination, especially when he discourses so feelingly about " The green-leaved fish geranium," ..."

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