Definition of Pelargonium hortorum

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, Fish Geranium, Zonal Pelargonium
Generic synonyms: Geranium
Group relationships: Genus Pelargonium, Pelargonium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelargonium Hortorum

Pekin
Pekinese
Peking
Peking duck
Peking man
Pekingese
Pekingologist
Pekingologists
Pekingology
Pel-Ebstein disease
Pel-Ebstein fever
Pelagian
Pelagian Islands
Pelargonium
Pelargonium graveolens
Pelargonium hortorum (current term)
Pelargonium limoneum
Pelargonium odoratissimum
Pelargonium peltatum
Pelasgian
Pelasgians
Pelasgic
Pele
Pele-type
Pelecanidae
Pelecanoididae
Pelecanus
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Pelecanus onocrotalus
Peleg

Literary usage of Pelargonium hortorum

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

1. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"PELARGONIUM Pelargonium hortorum. ... to gardeners as Geraniums and in their present hybrid forms have been named by Professor Bailey Pelargonium hortorum. ..."

2. Pamphlets on Forestry in Wisconsin (1910)
"... beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and geranium cuttings (Pelargonium hortorum). Rhizoctonia has been observed to occur parasitically at Madison upon cress ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Bedding geranium (Pelargonium hortorum, on right). Chrysanthemum (on lower left). (All magnified) When the healthy pollen of one plant falls upon the ripe ..."

4. Outline of Greenhouse Laboratory Work by Samuel Bowdlear Green, R. S. Mackintosh (1901)
"Geranium (Pelargonium hortorum.) MATERIAL NEEDED. Plants for cuttings (these should consist of at least six kinds that root easily, as coleus, fuchsia, ..."

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