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hibiscus
/hɪˈbɪskəs/
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What does hibiscus mean?
noun
- A flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea.
- A cocktail made with champagne and cranberry juice.
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/hɪˈbɪskəs/
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What with scarlet poinsettias, many-hued hibiscus, and the pretty native orange pigeon-berry, I got quite an amount of colour into my border.
Upright flowering plants,—Abutilons, browallias, calceolaria “Lincoln Park,” begonias, bouvardias, euphorbias, scarlet sage, richardia or calla, heliotropes, fuchsias, Chinese hibiscus, jasmines, single petunias, swainsona, billbergia, freesias, geraniums, eupheas.
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A peculiarly white and very light wood (the Hibiscus tiliareus) is alone used for this purpose: it is the same which serves for poles to carry any burden, and for the floating out-riggers to their canoes.
She pretended that she was making a flower-bed, and she stuck big scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth, all the time growing more and more angry and muttering to herself the things she would say and the names she would call Saidie when she returned.
Amelanchier, in variety Arbutus Unedo Berberis Aquifolium vulgaris Cistus ladaniferus laurifolius Colutea arborescens Daphne Laureola Mezereum pontica Deutzia crenata gracilis Forsythia suspensa viridissima Griselinia littoralis Hibiscus syriacus Hypericum calycinum Hypericum nepalense Koelrenteria paniculata Leycesteria formosa Philadelphus Gordonianus Prunus nana Pyrus japonica Rhus Cotinus Ribes aureum sanguineum Skimmia japonica Syringa (nearly all) Ulex europaeus fl.-pl.