Noun: cranesbill
| Singular | cranesbill |
| Plural | cranesbills |
Sample Sentences
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Sometimes called cranesbills, geraniums make up a large and widely used genus, greatly loved by gardeners from England to the United States to Australia. [2007, Holly Kerr Forsyth, The Constant Gardener, The Miegunyah Press, →ISBN, page 93:]
Nouns inflected like cranesbill
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. First attested in the 1500s. Calque of Dutch craenhals; cognate with German Kranichhals and Middle Low German kraneshals, all likely derived from Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρᾰνος (gérănos, “crane”).
2. By surface analysis, crane + -s- + bill. The flowering plant is so called because of the lengthened appendage of the seed vessel. See: German Nouns '
Kranichhals', Latin Nouns '
geranium'.