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A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.

its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. Abp. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceæ) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.

A valuable astringet obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

ium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)

to, or designating, an organic acid (called also nonoic acid) found in the leaves of the geranium (Pelargonium) and allied plants.

A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.

The dove's-foot geranium (Geranium molle).

is covered with pink tubercles. -- Strawberry fish (Zoöl.), the amadavat. -- Strawberry geranium (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage (Saxifraga sarmentosa) having reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry. -- Strawberry leaf. (a) The leaf of the strawberry. (b) The symbol of the rank or estate…

A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.