hydrangea

«hydrangea» in Mova's school dictionary: A garden bush with large round heads of small flowers in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hydrangea, hydrangeas)

meaning for a pupil

A garden bush with large round heads of small flowers in blue, pink, purple or white. tree →

sense in the lessons

In gardens and science lessons: the flower colour depends on the soil; acid soil makes blue flowers, chalky (alkaline) soil makes pink ones. Phrases: a hydrangea bush, blue hydrangeas.

examples

• Gran's hydrangeas are bright blue this year. tree →
• Hydrangeas like shade and lots of water. tree →
• In acid soil, hydrangeas turn blue; in chalky soil, they turn pink. tree →
• We picked a big pink hydrangea for the table. tree →
• The hydrangea flowers are dry and papery in autumn. tree →
• Hydrangea leaves are poisonous if eaten. tree →

note

Say hy-DRAIN-ja. Plural hydrangeas. A real-life pH indicator, like red cabbage. Not for pets or people to eat.

In the corpora

• Hydrangeas turn blue in acidic soil and stay pink in alkaline soil.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hydrangea» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.