grandiflora

[ gran-duh-flawr-uh, -flohr-uh ]

noun

1. any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grandiflora¹

1900–05; < New Latin, a specific epithet frequent in the names of such flowers; grand, -i-, flora

Example Sentences

From these we could look down at our leisure into the foliage of a row of Magnolia grandiflora, now in blossom.

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Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora makes a beautiful low-growing hedge; good plants can be bought for six dollars a hundred.

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Veitchii grandiflora, a variety even larger than the common type, seven inches across sometimes; orange-red, suffused with purple.

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Some of the Harrisi were grouped among tufts of the bright-foliaged Funkia grandiflora on the cool side of a Yew hedge.

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The flowers are varied in form and colour from the white M. grandiflora and M. venusta to the large claret-blotched M. Sanderiana.

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