cranesbill

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈkɹeɪnz.bɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A pair of long-beaked forceps.

词形变化

cranesbills plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Carolina cranesbill pencilled cranesbill spotted cranesbill

词源

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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