ivy geranium
- noun
:
geranio hiedra
- In the garden center, I found several varieties of ivy geranium with lush green leaves and rosy petals.
Examples
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A basket of ivy geraniums hung at the window where they sat.
Fiction book (1990) -
The vibrant pink flowers of the ivy geranium added a cheerful touch to the hanging basket on the porch.
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She carefully arranged the ivy geraniums in the window box, enjoying their trailing vines and colorful blooms.
Synonyms
A hanging geranium plant with round glossy leaves and groups of pink flowers
A trailing plant with shield-shaped leaves and pink flowers
A plant with long stems, round leaves, and bright pink flowers that people often grow in hanging baskets
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound denotes a type of geranium with ivy-like leaves or trailing growth habit, so the meaning is directly derivable from combining 'ivy' (a climbing/trailing plant) with 'geranium' (a flowering plant). This noun-noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the correct sense.
Etymology
Ivy geranium gets its name from how it looks: it has long stems that trail like ivy and the leaves and flowers of a geranium. So an ivy geranium is a geranium that grows down or trails, often used in hanging baskets.
