cranesbill

/ (ˈkreɪnzˌbɪl) /

noun

any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae See also herb Robert, storksbill

Words nearby cranesbill

crance iron, cranch, crandall, crane, crane fly, cranesbill, cranford, crani-, craniad, cranial, cranial arteritis

Example sentences from the Web for cranesbill

  • On and on they slowly drove through the woods, past the big beds of cranesbill, violets, and lilies.

    The Harvester |Gene Stratton Porter

  • See the tiny corkscrews of the pink geranium in our meadow (a miniature of its blue brother the cranesbill).

    Parables of the Christ-life |I. Lilias Trotter

  • More wonderfully still we see this "working together" in the seeding of the cranesbill.

    Parables of the Christ-life |I. Lilias Trotter

  • Yet here on Lookout Mountain it seemed almost as much an old friend as the saxifrage or the cranesbill.

    Spring notes from Tennessee |Bradford Torrey