geranium pratense

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   tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America

   Synonymsmeadow cranesbill

   Broadercranesbill

Questions about geranium pratense

What does geranium pratense mean?

geranium pratense means "tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America".

What is another word for geranium pratense?

Close synonyms include meadow cranesbill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is geranium pratense a common word?

geranium pratense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.