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Azalea. World English Historical Dictionary

Azalea. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Azalea Bot. Pl. -as. [a. mod.L. azalea (Linn.), a. Gr. ἀζαλέα, fem. of ἀζαλέος dry; so named either from the dry soil in which it flourishes, or from its dry brittle wood.] A genus of shrubby plants (N.O. Ericaceæ), natives of the northern hemisphere, growing in sandy soil, and blooming profusely, with showy and mostly fragrant flowers, pure white or yellow, or streaked and stained with crimson. The one British species (A. procumbens), found in the Scotch Highlands, is by some made a distinct genus, Loiseleuria.

1 1753.  in Chambers, Cycl. Supp.

2 1803.  J. Abercrombie, Gard. Calend., 605. Hardy kinds of flowering shrubs and trees…. Such as roses … dog-woods, azaleas, [etc.].

3 1881.  Blackmore, Christowell, i. The white chalice of azalea.

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