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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. Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay.

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"Oleander" Quotes from Famous Books

... you. Won't you? Your changed boy, Fred.' Changed, an' I 'm glad of it. He 's more like a natural boy of his age now than he ever was before. He 's jest like a young oak saplin'. Before he allus put me in mind o' one o' them oleander slips that you used to cut off an' hang ag'in' the house in a bottle o' water so 's they 'd root. We 'll go down, won't we, Hester? We 'll go down, ...

— The Uncalled - A Novel • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... and villa. Warm and deliciously fragrant, it swept the stiff wet Bermuda grass upon the lawn of the Sherrill villa at Palm Beach, rustled the crimson hedge of hibiscus, caught the subtle perfume of jasmine and oleander and swept on to a purple-flowered vine on the white walls of the villa, a fuller, richer thing for the ghost-scent ...

— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

Words linked to "Oleander" : oleander fern, genus Nerium, Nerium oleander, poisonous plant, rose bay, Nerium, yellow oleander