hydrangea
Hydrangea (noun) means a garden shrub, genus Hydrangea, valued for its rounded flower heads made up of many small blooms in shades of white, pink or blue. Example: “She planted a blue hydrangea beside the front door.”
How to use hydrangea
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA hydrangea is a garden shrub known for its big, colourful clusters of flowers.
Hydrangea is a standard, everyday gardening term with no particular formality.
The stress falls on the second syllable, so it is said hy-DRAYN-juh, not HY-dran-ja.
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She planted a blue _____ beside the front door.
Etymology
Hydrangea was borrowed from the scientific genus name Hydrangea, itself built from the Ancient Greek words for water and for vessel or capsule. Carl Linnaeus chose the name because of the shape of the plant's fruit.
