azalea
pronunciation
How to pronounce azalea in British English:
UK [əˈzeɪliə]
How to pronounce azalea in American English:
US [əˈzeljə]
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- Noun:
- any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors
Word Origin
- azalea
- azalea: see arid
- azalea (n.)
- type of flowering shrub, 1753, Modern Latin, coined by Linnaeus from the fem. of Greek azaleos "dry," related to azein "to dry up" (see ash (n.1)). The plant thrives in sandy soil.
Example
- 1. I loved that azalea bush .
- 2. Oh ! Oh ! There is an azalea festival at the public garden .
- 3. 5 / 17 A carpenter bee forages for pollen on an azalea shrub in wilmington , delaware
- 4. After breakfast one saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea bushes strewn around the orphanage .
- 5. Later that evening , I began pulling weeds from around my lopsided azalea bush .