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Definition of Erodium
1. Noun. Geraniums of Europe and South America and Australia especially mountainous regions.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Geraniaceae, Geraniaceae, Geranium Family
Member holonyms: Heron's Bill, Storksbill
Definition of Erodium
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the plant genus ''Erodium'', including filarees and storksbills. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Erodium
1. a plant of the geranium family [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erodium
| erniggliite erning erns ernstite erodable erode eroded erodent erodents erodes | erodibilities erodibility erodible eroding erodium erodiums erogation erogations erogenicity erogenous zones | eromenoi erose erose leaf |
Literary usage of Erodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"Erodium MALACOIDES AT LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.— On July 9, 1902, while collecting
plants about the mills on the north side of the Merrimac River at Lawrence ..."
2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The Geranium is divided into three genera: Erodium is the first, ... Erodium is
from the Greek, and signifies a heron, whose bill is similar to that of the ..."
3. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"1 (Erodium cicutarium y. DC.), but with which they are certainly not identical.
These 2 states or stages of the sp. (the stemless and luxuriant) are however ..."
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