geranium family
noun
the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
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Nearby words
- geraldton waxflower,
- geraniaceous,
- geranial,
- geraniol,
- geranium,
- gerar,
- gerard,
- geratology,
- gerbera,
- gerbert
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