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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

... now in narrower houses; and it was easy for the visitor—for one visitor, at least—to fall into pensive meditation. I strolled about the grounds; stood between the last year's cotton-rows, while a Carolina wren poured out his soul from an oleander bush near by; admired the confidence of a pair of shrikes, who had made a nest in a honeysuckle vine in the front yard; listened to the sweet music of mocking-birds, cardinals, and orchard orioles; watched the martins circling above the trees; thought of the Princess, and smiled at the ...

— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey

... mounted two of the terraces without meeting a soul. The garden was deserted. Hastening on, they turned the Y at the beginning of the third terrace. A hundred or more yards along the latter there was a copse of oleander and luxuriant filbert bushes over-ridden by fig trees. As the sedan drew near this obstruction, its bearers flung quick glances above and below them, and along the wall, and descrying another sedan off a little distance but descending ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

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