pelargonium

See also: Pelargonium and pélargonium

English

Winter pelargonium

Etymology

From translingual Pelargonium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊniəm

Noun

pelargonium (plural pelargoniums or pelargonia)

1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium, commonly called geraniums.

Usage notes

Geranium is also the genus of plants commonly known as cranesbills. The cause of the confusion is that the two genera were earlier regarded as being one, called Geranium.

Translations

flower of the genus Pelargonium

• Bulgarian: мушкато (bg) n (muškato)
• Czech: pelargonie f, pelargónie f
• Finnish: pelargoni (fi)
• French: pélargonium (fr) m
• German: Geranie (de) f, Pelargonie (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pelargonia m

  Nynorsk: pelargonia m

• Polish: pelargonia (pl) f, muszkatel (pl) m
• Portuguese: pelargónio (pt) m (Portugal), pelargônio m (Brazil)
• Romanian: pelargonie (ro) f, mușcată (ro) f
• Russian: пеларго́ния (ru) f (pelargónija)
• Serbo-Croatian: muškatla (sh) f, мушкатла f, muškatl (sh) m, мушкатл (muškatl)
• Swedish: pelargonia (sv) c, pelargon (sv) c

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pelargonium m (definite singular pelargonien or pelargoniumen, indefinite plural pelargonier, definite plural pelargoniene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by pelargonia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pelargonium m (definite singular pelargoniumen, indefinite plural pelargoniumar, definite plural pelargoniumane)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of pelargonia