- 1杜鵑花（杜鵑屬。台灣說「杜鵑」多半就是這一類）
A rhododendron is a bush that keeps its green leaves all through winter. In spring it opens big, bright flowers — pink, purple, red, white — often in thick bunches. plant it for those flowers. Though actually the Greek name means 'rose tree', it is not a rose, and it is usually a bush, not a tall tree. Some kinds do grow very large. You see a lot of them in cool, wet mountain gardens. The old Greek word was also used for , a different plant with a bit of the same look; today's garden rhododendron got the name because scientists used it for this group of bushes.
組成Greek rhodon (rose) + dendron (tree). The old name was used for oleander; the garden bush later got the same name as a plant-group name, because the flowers looked a little like oleander.
同家族的字
- philodendronshares dendron, Greek for tree
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rhododendronnoun/ɹoʊdəˈdɛndɹən/
- 1
obsoleteOleander (Nerium oleander).
- 2
Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron.
- Rhododendrons and azaleas are plants of temperate regions, the grandest lilies are from temperate Japan, and a large proportion of our most showy flowering plants are natives of the Himalayas, of the Cape, of the United States, of Chili, or of China and Japan, all temperate regions.
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Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron.
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