gerania

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of geranium

   “Some gerania, aloes, ficoids, &c. which are propagated from a leaf either artificially planted or even dropping from the parent plant, reſemble the tænia whoſe joints or whoſe veſicles are ſeparated and form a perfect animal: yet each is alſo propagated in the ordinary way from an egg or ſeed; and we need not, without neceſſity, have recourſe to ſuch indiſcriminate arbitrary methods of cutting the knot which we may be able to untie.”

   “During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.”

   “Gerania were blooming in occasional window-boxes. Their flowers, Fenner said, colour of the blood of the bourgeoisie.”

   “Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.”

   “Geraniums - I found a rose geranium that smells heavenly and is quite attractive in its own stout, shrubby sorta way -- and then it died because I overwatered the crap out of it. Gerania are much tougher than you think they oughta be, with their sissified pretty flower crap and the nice smells. But tough. Wonderfully tough.”