bedding geranium
- noun
- Specialized
:
geranio de cama
- The nursery offered a variety of bedding geraniums with leaves edged in contrasting colors.
Examples
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Every spring, she plants bright red bedding geraniums along the garden path.
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White bedding geraniums can add a touch of elegance to any flower bed.
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Look at that bedding geranium!
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I love my bedding geraniums!
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Every spring, she plants bright red bedding geraniums along the garden path.
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The nursery offered a variety of bedding geraniums with leaves edged in contrasting colors.
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White bedding geraniums can add a touch of elegance to any flower bed.
Synonyms
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3.7
A common garden plant with round bright flowers often grown in pots
A common garden plant with leaves that have a dark band and bright pink, red, or white flowers
A garden plant with round leaves that have a dark band and bright pink, red, or white flowers
A garden plant with upright stems, leaves with wavy edges and a dark band, and pink, red, or white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'bed' (here as the verb meaning to plant into a flower bed) with 'geranium', so the sense ‘a geranium used for bedding/ornamental planting’ is directly derivable from the constituents. This follows regular English noun-modifier/compositional patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Bedding geranium comes from gardeners who planted these geranium plants close together in a 'flower bed' to make a low, bright carpet of color. So bedding shows how they were used, and the phrase means a geranium grown for flower beds.