Hydrangea
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- noun
- /haɪˈdreɪndʒə/
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hortensia
- The handsome climbing hydrangea crawled over many of the branches.
- a hydrangea bush
- blue hydrangea
- oakleaf hydrangea
Don't move or they'll nibble your hydrangeas.
- Don't move or they'll nibble your hydrangeas.
Examples
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These are all my Home Depot and Lowe's hydrangeas that I've planted over the years.
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Outside the house and below the porches are massive tangles of hydrangeas.
Fiction book (2002) -
From this, it might appear that the hydrangea is a fairly simple plant, but there are more complications.
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What you want is some hydrangeas.
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The house looks beautiful; are those hydrangeas?
Fiction book (2001) -
The flowers have large heads, like hydrangeas.
Fiction book (2000) -
These hydrangeas are beautiful.
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The cultivation of hydrangeas was evolved from a number of varieties originally found in Japan.
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I've planted boxwood and hydrangea, and cutting flowers like peonies, black-eyed Susans, petunias, and daylilies.
Fiction book (2000) -
The view from the front porch takes in hydrangea bushes and the woods beyond.
Synonyms
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A garden shrub with large round groups of flowers often pink or blue
Compounds
A bush that loses its leaves and has large cone-shaped flowers in fall
- Specialized
A climbing plant that loses its leaves and has flat clusters of white flowers
- Specialized
A bush with large white flower clusters that blooms in early summer
A garden bush with round flowers that change from green to pink or blue
- Specialized
A garden shrub or small tree with cone-shaped clusters of white to pink flowers
- Specialized
A climbing plant with roots on its stems and large white flower clusters
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants that includes hydrangeas and similar shrubs
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hydrangea comes from the Greek parts hydor 'water' and angeion 'vessel' or 'cup', and you can see the 'hydro' part in words like hydrant. So, the name points to the plant's cup-shaped seed pods and to the fact that hydrangeas often need plenty of water.