Rhododendron arboreum in India, and the Brachychiton acerifolium of Australia.
Few plants are so well known as the Common or Pontic Rhododendron (page 56), and in many parts of Britain it has naturalised itself in the woodlands.
While you slept I carried a right many things to the rhododendron slick back of the house!
She had not brought any of the rosy Rhododendron colour away in her face; or else it had faded.
Out from the great rhododendron thickets, right and left of the house, the pheasants were coming to spend the pleasant evening-tide in running to and fro, and scratching at the ant-hills.
And in other cases in which the Rhododendron has been used at Edinburgh, it has been productive of good effects; and, accordingly, it is now introduced into the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia.
This species of Rhododendron has lately been introduced into Britain: it is a native of Siberia, affecting mountainous situations, and flowering in June and July.
Well, young Smythe was told about the mystery of the rhododendron bed, and seemed more interested than frightened.
You've got to walk out on an appointed night, after evening school, and go round the rhododendron bed twice, no matter what happens.
The grouse flew into a rhododendron thicket and, keeping brush between Bud and himself, was seen only as a hurtling ball of feathers and at uncertain intervals.
Either Gramps or Bud could have shot him before he glided out of sight in a rhododendron thicket.
Bud waited quietly, with a couple of chickadees that were sitting nearby on a sprig of rhododendron for company.
Some little side-branch is chosen that runs through a gully so choked with laurel and briers and rhododendron as to be quite impassable, save by such worming and crawling as must make a great noise.
Either the bear would tree, or he would try to smash on through to the low rhododendron of the Devil's Court House, where dogs who followed might break their legs.
All night the left column struggled up the two "deres" which you see to the east of Bauchop's Hill, and by a quarter to six in the morning it was on the lower slopes of Rhododendron Ridge.
Before nightfall our men were entrenched on the top of Rhododendron Ridge, "a quarter of a mile short of Chunuk Bair--that is, of victory!
That evening our line ran along Rhododendron Ridge up to the crest of Chunuk Bair, where some 800 New Zealanders and Maoris were holding about two hundred yards of shallow trenches unprotected by wire.
If you look at the map on page 275, you will see that, in order to get from Big Table Top to Koja Chemen, our troops had to cross Rhododendron Ridge.
It is now agreed that the plants were species of rhododendron and azaleas.
Our rhododendron produces one of the hardest and strongest of woods, weighing thirty-nine pounds per cubic foot.
He had picked out the level stretch of sandy road not far from Allaphair's house, which was densely lined with rhododendron and laurel, and was carefully denuding it of stones.
The rhododendron of Lapland grows also at eight or nine hundred toises lower than the rhododendron of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
The charmingrhododendron of the Andes (the befaria) was first described by M.
We there find the family of the alpine rhododendrons, the thibaudias, the andromedas, the vacciniums, and those befarias with resinous leaves, which we have several times compared to the rhododendron of our European Alps.
They met fierce opposition, but drove the Turks before them up the slopes, and eventually reached the crest of a ridge immediately below Chunuk Bair itself, known as Rhododendron Ridge.
On the other rose the steep declivity of Rhododendron Ridge.
The leaves of the endless hybridised varieties of the Rhododendron vary much in shape; some are narrowest towards the base and others towards the apex.
Out of 36 fallen leaves on another bed, in which different varieties of the Rhododendron grew, only 17 were narrower towards the base than towards the apex.
The hardy garden forms are derivatives of Rhododendron Catawbiense, of the southern Appalachian Mountains.
The "great laurel" of the northern United States is Rhododendron maximum.
In one place a person may desire a wild aster effect, or a petunia effect, or a larkspur effect, or a rhododendron effect; or it may be desirable to run heavily to strong foliage effects in one direction and to light flower effects in another.
Its edges are wild with tangled rhododendron and kalmia; its waters, small in volume, but cold and crystal.
A long line of saddled horses and mules were ranged along the fence, or tied to the rhododendron hedges on the opposite side of the road.
On the Beech Flats there is no underbrush, except where the rhododendron hedges the purling streams.
Hedges of rhododendron grow rankly along it, on both sides, and almost meet over the clear, rushing water.
A stream with water the color of a pure topaz flows under the rich green rhododendron hedges.
Nevertheless, I once saw a humble-bee visiting the hybrid Rhododendron azaloides, and it entered the mouths of some flowers and cut holes into the others.
When you get into the rhododendrons, you cannot see up into the tree branches, because the rhododendron branches are tangled about you and above you with their stiff green leaves.
He raised the cap slightly, let it drop back again on the rhododendron leaves, and laid himself full length on the ground.
Dick, unrolling it, rose slowly to his knees, facing the rhododendron bush.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhododendron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
