rhody
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See also: Rhody
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of rhododendron + -y.
Noun
[edit]rhody (plural rhodies)
- Alternative form of rhodie (“rhododendron”)
- 1994, American Rhododendron Society Journal, page 67:
- In doing the metering from the rhody leaves you will compensate for the overbrightness of the sky.
- 2007, Karen Karbo, Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 172:
- I looked out the window and tried to see over the pink rhododendrons and down the block. […] I couldn’t see a thing but a tangle of leathery rhody leaves, and over that, two neighbors standing on the sidewalk talking.
- 2014, Lori Benton, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves. […] A musket ball ripped through rhody leaves near his head.