Noun: rhododendron
| Singular | rhododendron |
| Plural | rhododendrons; rhododendra |
Sample Sentences
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Rhododendrons and azaleas are plants of temperate regions, the grandest lilies are from temperate Japan, and a large proportion of our most showy flowering plants are natives of the Himalayas, of the Cape, of the United States, of Chili, or of China and Japan, all temperate regions. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 298:]
Nouns inflected like rhododendron
xyston,
upsilon,
onomasticon,
apastron,
analogion,
hexadecachoron,
parallelohedron,
bioctahedron,
omophorion,
Omicron,
phaneron,
epiplastron,
acroterion,
hypoplastron,
mixolimnion,
diachylon,
proamnion,
chrismon,
extrachorion,
trihemitetartemorion, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
The obsolete sense derives from Latin rhododendron (“oleander”), from Ancient Greek ῥοδόδενδρον (rhodódendron, “oleander”), from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + δένδρον (déndron, “tree”). The modern sense comes through the intermediary of the genus name Rhododendron, not closely related taxonomically, but with similar flowers to those of oleander. See: Latin Nouns '
rhododendron', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ῥοδόδενδρον'.