hydrangea

See also: Hydrangea

English

Hydrangea macrophylla

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Hydrangea. From Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, capsule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹeɪn.d͡ʒə/, /haɪˈdɹeɪn.d͡ʒi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hydrangea (plural hydrangeas)

1. Any of several shrubs, of the genus Hydrangea, having large clusters of white, pink or blue flowers

   Synonym: hortensia

   • 2022 August 16, Jenni Avins, “Boomers Are All the Rage”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It also offers a portal to something deeper: a current collective wish to fill our kitchens with hydrangeas, drape ourselves in Eileen Fisher, pour some wine over ice with our closest friends and stop sweating the small stuff.

Derived terms

• ashy hydrangea (Hydrangea cinerea)
• bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)
• Chinese hydrangea vine (Hydrangea glaucescens)
• climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea hydrangeoides [syn. Schizophragma hydrangeoides], Hydrangea petiolaris)
• fall-blooming hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
• gray hydrangea (Hydrangea cinerea)
• Japanese climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala)
• lacecap hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)
• Mongolian hydrangea (Hydrangea bretschneideri)
• mophead hydrangea (Hydrangea macrocarpa, Hydrangea macrophylla)
• mountain hydrangea (Hydrangea serrata)
• nettle-leaved hydrangea (Hydrangea hirta)
• oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
• pannicled hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
• silverleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea radiata)
• smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
• snowy hydrangea (Hydrangea radiata)
• wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
• woolly hydrangea (Hydrangea heteromalla)

Translations

shrub

• Basque: hortentsia
• Bulgarian: хортензия f (hortenzija)
• Burmese: ခြောက်လပန်း (hkraukla.pan:)
• Catalan: hortènsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繡球花 / 绣球花 (zh) (xiùqiúhuā)

• Danish: hortensia
• Dutch: hortensia (nl) m or f
• Finnish: hortensia (fi)
• French: hortensia (fr) m
• Galician: hortensa f
• Georgian: ჰორტენზია (ka) (horṭenzia)
• German: Hortensie (de) f
• Greek: ορτανσία (el) f (ortansía)
• Indonesian: kembang bokor
• Italian: ortensia (it) f
• Japanese: 紫陽花 (ja) (あじさい, ajisai)
• Korean: 수국속 (suguksok)
• Polish: hortensja (pl) f
• Portuguese: hortênsia (pt) f
• Romanian: hortensie (ro) f
• Russian: горте́нзия (ru) f (gortɛ́nzija)
• Spanish: hortensia f
• Swedish: hortensia (sv) c
• Thai: ไฮเดรนเยีย (hai-dreen-yiia)
• Turkish: ortanca (tr)
• Vietnamese: tú cầu (vi)

References

• “hydrangea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.