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gerardia

gerardia noun: any of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants.

gerardia: any of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants
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Noun

gerardia (countable and uncountable, plural gerardias)

  1. Any of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants.
    • It is a special pity to gather the gerardias, which, as they grow, seem to enjoy life to the full, and when picked, to be so miserable they turn black as they dry.1922, The New Nature Library, page 147
    • Here the deep sands harbor xeric sandhill communities, which contain many wildflowers pictured in this book: sandhills milkweed, sandhills baptisia, sandy-field beaksedge, and gerardia, to name a few.2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 45

Synonyms of gerardia

Forms of gerardia

pluralgerardias

Origin of gerardia

From Gerardia, historical synonym of Agalinis. The obsolete genus derives from English Gerard, being named after English herbalist John Gerard (1545–1612).

Questions about gerardia

What does gerardia mean?
Gerardia means any of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants.
What part of speech is gerardia?
Gerardia is a noun.
What is the plural of gerardia?
The plural of gerardia is gerardias.

Words near gerardia in the dictionary

  1. geranyls
  2. geranyltransferase
  3. geranyltransferases
  4. Gerard
  5. Gerardi
  6. gerardia
  7. gerardias
  8. Gerardis
  9. Geras
  10. Gerasa
  11. gerascophobia

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