mountain andromeda
- noun
- US
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andrómeda de montaña
- The garden features a mountain andromeda that blooms beautifully every spring.
Examples
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She planted a mountain andromeda along the walkway to add year-round greenery.
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Botanists often study the mountain andromeda for its distinctive bell-shaped flowers.
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The mountain andromeda blooms beautifully in spring.
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I planted a mountain andromeda in my garden.
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Botanists often study the mountain andromeda for its distinctive bell-shaped flowers.
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She planted a mountain andromeda along the walkway to add year-round greenery.
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The garden features a mountain andromeda that blooms beautifully every spring.
Synonyms
A small evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and small white bell-shaped flowers
An evergreen garden shrub that has clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers
A small evergreen bush with glossy leaves and clusters of small white flowers
A small evergreen shrub with shiny leaves and white or pink flowers
A fast-growing bush that keeps leaves all year with arching branches and white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
mountain + andromeda
This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase: 'andromeda' names an evergreen shrub and 'mountain' simply qualifies it as a variety or habitat, so the sense 'a mountain-type or mountain-dwelling andromeda shrub' is directly derivable from the parts. The modifier+noun pattern is a common, cross-linguistic way to form subtypes, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mountain andromeda may come from the name of the Greek princess Andromeda and the word mountain, which gives the image of small white bell flowers hanging on high, rocky slopes. So today mountain andromeda refers to a small garden shrub that keeps its green leaves all year and has little white, bell-shaped flowers.
