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Erodium

noun

geraniums of Europe and South America and Australia especially mountainous regions

• Syn: ↑genus Erodium

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Geraniaceae, ↑family Geraniaceae, ↑geranium family

• Member Meronyms: ↑storksbill, ↑heron's bill

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\\-dēəm\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek erōdios heron; from the long-beaked fruit — more at ardea

1. capitalized : a large genus of herbs (family Geraniaceae) having pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, small flowers, and long bearded twisted tails on the carpels — see alfilaria

2. -s : any plant of the genus Erodium — called also heron's-bill, storksbill

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erodium /e-rōˈdi-əm/

noun

A plant of the stork's-bill genus Erodium of the family Geraniaceae

ORIGIN: Gr erōdios a heron

Useful english dictionary. 2012.