rhody

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English

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Etymology

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Clipping of rhododendron +‎ -y.

Noun

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rhody (plural rhodies)

  1. Alternative form of rhodie (rhododendron)
    • 1994, American Rhododendron Society Journal, page 67:
      In doing the metering from the rhody leaves you will compensate for the overbrightness of the sky.
    • 2007, Karen Karbo, Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 172:
      I looked out the window and tried to see over the pink rhododendrons and down the block. [] I couldn’t see a thing but a tangle of leathery rhody leaves, and over that, two neighbors standing on the sidewalk talking.
    • 2014, Lori Benton, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves. [] A musket ball ripped through rhody leaves near his head.