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Cranesbill

//ˈkɹeɪnz.bɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium found throughout the temperate zone.

    "Sometimes called cranesbills, geraniums make up a large and widely used genus, greatly loved by gardeners from England to the United States to Australia."

  2. 2
    any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium wordnet
  3. 3
    A pair of long-beaked forceps.

Etymology

First attested in the 1500s. Calque of Dutch craenhals; cognate with German Kranichhals and Middle Low German kraneshals, all likely derived from Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρᾰνος (gérănos, “crane”). By surface analysis, crane + -s- + bill. The flowering plant is so called because of the lengthened appendage of the seed vessel.

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