HOW TO PRONOUNCE
rhododendron
/ɹoʊdəˈdɛndɹən/
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roh-duh-DEN-drun: give DEN the main beat.
The initial rh sounds like a single r. Keep the final dr together, followed by a light vowel before n.
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“The rhododendron outside the window was covered in flowers.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does rhododendron mean?
noun
- Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron.
- Especially, the common rhododendron or Pontic rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum).
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noun
- (obsolete) Oleander (Nerium oleander).
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/ɹoʊdəˈdɛndɹən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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“Go and make one of the men servants bring some in a basket to the rhododendron walk,” he said.
But there his application flagged, and he surrendered himself instead, chin on hand, to staring out at the rhododendron in the yard.
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The rhododendron of Lapland grows also at eight or nine hundred toises lower than the rhododendron of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Lastly, Edwards the gardener rounded a big rhododendron and completed the party.
It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now.