"cranesbill" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɹeɪnz.bɪl/ [US] Audio: en-uk-cranesbill.ogg Forms: cranesbills [plural]
Etymology: First attested in the 1500s. Calque of Dutch craenhals; cognate with German Kranichhals and Middle Low German kraneshals, all likely derived from Latin geranium. By surface analysis, crane + -s- + bill. The flowering plant is so called because of the lengthened appendage of the seed-vessel. Etymology templates: {{etydate/the|1500s}} the 1500s, {{etydate|1500s}} First attested in the 1500s, {{calque|en|nl|craenhals}} Calque of Dutch craenhals, {{cog|de|Kranichhals}} German Kranichhals, {{cog|gml|kraneshals}} Middle Low German kraneshals, {{der|en|la|geranium}} Latin geranium, {{surf|en|crane|-s-|bill}} By surface analysis, crane + -s- + bill Head templates: {{en-noun}} cranesbill (plural cranesbills)
  1. Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium found throughout the temperate zone. Categories (lifeform): Flowers, Geraniales order plants Translations (plant of the genus Geranium): γεράνιον (geránion) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), здравец (zdravec) (Bulgarian), kurjenpolvi (Finnish), géranium (French), Storchschnabel [masculine] (German), gólyaorr (Hungarian), crobh fola [masculine] (Irish), geranio [masculine] (Italian), 風露草 (alt: フウロソウ) (Japanese), storkenebb [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bodziszek [masculine] (Polish), geranium [neuter] (Polish), geraniu [masculine] (Romanian), гера́нь (geránʹ) [feminine] (Russian), жураве́льник (žuravélʹnik) [masculine] (Russian), geranio [masculine] (Spanish), näva (Swedish), pig yr aran [masculine] (Welsh), troedrudd [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. A pair of long-beaked forceps.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pencilled cranesbill, spotted cranesbill

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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plant of the genus Geranium",
      "word": "näva"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "plant of the genus Geranium",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pig yr aran"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "plant of the genus Geranium",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "troedrudd"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "cranesbill"
  ],
  "word": "cranesbill"
}

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