weigela
noun
any of various shrubby, eastern Asian plants belonging to the genus Weigela, of the honeysuckle family, having funnel-shaped white, pink, or crimson flowers.
weigelia
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a variation of
weigela.
Example Sentences
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The satin cushion with the embroidered puppies was carried out among the blushing weigelia bushes; and the twain lived and loved and played, from day-start to twilight, in the live, midsummer air.
From Loveliness A Story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
She ran away with the Yorkshire, and they sat among the reddening weigelia bushes for some time, conversing in low tones.
From Loveliness A Story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
And the pink weigelia is almost a fool-proof shrub.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Rose suddenly inspected me and then Parti, as if he preferred the crack to be with cudgels; but in a second the little blaze vanished, and he only stripped a weigelia branch of every blossom.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
"There is the weigelia that Dorothy has in front of this house; and forsythia—we forced its yellow blossoms last week, you know; and the flowering almond—that has whitey-pinky-buttony blossoms."
From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
