hydrangea
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- noun
- /haɪˈdreɪndʒə/
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hortensia
- She planted a white hydrangea by the entrance to her home for a welcoming touch.
- hydrangea bush
- hydrangea shrub
- white hydrangeas
Examples
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Cynthia stood by a lacecap hydrangea, holding Jonathan on her hip and peering into a variety of cameras.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many years ago, when I was traveling about the country, I noticed magnificent hydrangeas on the hills, where the air drainage was... perfect, and very poor specimens, or perhaps none at all, in the valleys.
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The multi-colored hydrangea just might work.
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My hydrangea came back.
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Several trees of some sort, enough for a good bit of shade, and over there, a profusion of lacecap hydrangea.
Fiction book (1999) -
Thus it was the hydrangeas that gave the first pointer in another modern discovery of horticultural importance.
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These are all your typical smooth hydrangea, Annabelle hydrangeas here, which, you know, normally would just totally flop and blow out all over the place.
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There'd be banks of hydrangeas, he'd said, behind the waterfall; blue, purple, pink.
Fiction book (1999) -
Soledad and Esperanza tiptoed across the patio so as not to wake her grandfather's hydrangea sleeping in terra-cotta pots and old motor fuel oil cans.
Fiction book (1999) -
The garden was filled with large clusters of hydrangeas in shades of blue and pink.
Synonyms
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A garden shrub with large round groups of flowers often pink or blue
A garden bush with round flowers that change from green to pink or blue
A shrub that loses its leaves and has clusters of creamy white flowers
A plant with white flower clusters that climbs walls and fences
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
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hydrangea comes from Greek parts hydor meaning 'water' and angeion meaning 'vessel'. A helpful image is the flower clusters and seed pods as little water vessels, and the plants often like wet soil, which is why the name fits.