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Look up: oleander

  1. Oleander
    (Nerium) These are evergreen flowering shrubs that are found wild in the Orient. They can grow up to 20 feet tall. All parts of this plant are poisonous if eaten. They are great for cultivating outdoors in the far South. The leaves are dark green, leathery and lance-shaped; they average 6 inches in length and 1 inch wide. The flowers bloom in clusters at the ends of the shoots in the summer. They have a tubular base, but open out at the tips. They may be single, semi-double or double, and come i...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/nerium.html

  2. Oleander
    Oleander (Nerium oleander) is a poisonous shrub of the dogbane family native to southern Europe and Asia. It has evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red or white flowers.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. oleander
    [n] - an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Oleander
    O`le·an'der noun [ French oléandre (cf. Italian oleandro , Late Latin lorandrum ), probably corrupted, under the influence of laurus laurel, from Latin rhododendron , Greek ...; ... rose + ... tree.] (Botany) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red varie ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/16

  5. oleander
    <botany> A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose. ... Every part of the plant is dangerously poisonous, and death has occured from using ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. oleander
    rose bay 1 Nerium oleander noun an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Oleander
    • (n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. oleander
    any of the ornamental evergreen shrubs of the genus Nerium, belonging to the dogbane family (Apocynaceae) and having a poisonous milky juice.
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/14

  9. oleander
    oleander: see dogbane.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09169


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