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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oleander
noun
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▪ Before me lay a deep gulley choked with oleanders and thorny scrub, which descended precipitously down to the private beach.
▪ Geraniums sat on the window ledges and oleanders grew from old Elf oil drums outside the doors.
▪ O, lady fair, the oleanders spice the air O, my sainted aunt!
▪ That night we slid into Tomb Bay, where Lycian rock tombs glare over a sheltered bight and cicadas yell from oleanders.
▪ There are oleander bushes and flame of the forest trees.
▪ There were oleanders and an untidy tumble of bamboo dwellings.
▪ They include oleander, poinsettia and other members of the Euphorbia family, and the castor-oil plant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oleander

Oleander \O`le*an"der\, n. [F. ol['e]andre (cf. It. oleandro, LL. lorandrum), prob. corrupted, under the influence of laurus laurel, fr. L. rhododendron, Gr. ?; ? rose + ? tree.] (Bot.) A beautiful evergreen shrub ( Nerium oleander) of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red, white, or pink flowers. It is a native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

Note: Every part of the plant is dangerously poisonous, and death has occured from using its wood for skewers in cooking meat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oleander

"rose bay," a poisonous evergreen Mediterranean shrub, c.1400, from Medieval Latin oleander, probably (by influence of Latin olea "olive tree") from Late Latin lorandrum, from Latin rhododendron (see rhododendron), itself altered by influence of Latin laurea "laurel," on resemblance of leaves. This round-about etymology is supported by the French word for it, laurier rose.

Wiktionary
oleander

n. (context botany English) (taxlink Nerium oleander species noshow=1), a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, ''Apocynaceae'', but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental.

WordNet
oleander

n. 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 [syn: rose bay, Nerium oleander]

Wikipedia
Oleander (band)

Oleander is a post-grunge band from Sacramento, California, USA. Its name is derived from the poisonous wildflower oleander, which line the highways of Northern California. In their nine years of activity, the band released four studio albums under various record labels. Their most successful effort, 1999's February Son, includes the hit single " Why I'm Here." Oleander went on official hiatus after the release and promotion of their fourth album, Joyride, in 2004. The band took some time off, but reunited in 2008, and began work on their album Something Beautiful, which was released on April 16, 2013.

Oleander (disambiguation)

Oleander is a poisonous plant grown as an ornamental

Oleander may refer to:

  • The Oleander wattle, tree native to Australia
  • Oleander, California, in Fresno County
  • Oleander (former town), California, in Fresno County
  • MV Oleander, ferry
  • Oleander Moth, Syntomeida epilais
  • Oleander hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii
  • Oleander-Rennen, German horse race
  • Oleander (band), American post-grunge band
  • Oleander (album), by the aforementioned band
  • Matt Oleander, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Morceau Oleander, a fictional character in Psychonauts

Usage examples of "oleander".

An excellent poison can be swiftly produced under field conditions by boiling two baskets of oleander leaves, distilling the essence, and adding three ounces of dried aconite tubers.

Contains processed oleander leaves, saltpeter, oil of peppermint, N-Acetyl-p-aminophenol, zinc oxide, charcoal, cobalt chloride, caffeine, extract of digitalis, steroids in trace amounts, sodium citrate, ascorbic acid, artificial coloring and flavoring.

Beyond the bridge they passed across a lower level, jungle clad with delicate bamboos and dhak, and sweet-scented shrubs, and clusters of gorgeous oleanders.

Palm trees surrounded by blue plumbago, pink and white oleander, purple and red bougainvillea, Easter lilies, yellow, peach, red, pink, and white hibiscus, and cedar trees all perfumed the air as he rode.

Browning grass, a stretch of pyracantha clawing up one side of the fence, and the hedge of oleanders.

The row of oleander bushes in the back yard of the yellow house went raving mad, flowering so riotously that they might well have developed locomotor ataxia.

That of the Oleander, on the contrary, was even larger than that of the Terebinth, and from Hininsu, its chief governor ruled alike over the marshes of the Fayum and the plains of Beni-Suef.

VW microbus beside a chain-link fence and a flowering pink oleander hedge.

Then He drew away the orange groves, the oleander and the apricot trees, the faithful eucalyptus with its pale stems and tressy foliage, the sweet waters that fertilised the soil, making it soft and brown where the plough seamed it into furrows, the tufted plants and giant reeds that crowd where water is.

Little Adele and huge Mira were both up and full, flooding the black-and-white checkerwork marble with pale blue light, turning the giant vases filled with oleander and jessamine and bougainvillea into a pastel wonderland.

A thin little stream threaded the ravine, and on its banks grew clumps of the tamarisk, the oleander, and the thuya, making an oasis grateful to the eyes.

I stood in front of our old apartment house, dingy white streaked with rain, water dripping from the bananas and the palms and the glossy oleanders.

The wall mostly shut off the elevation of the cliff, and the induced gardens which clothed it, yet a scent of roses, oleanders, peach and lemon trees filtered occasionally into the streets below.

He prowled about the palms and oleanders and wattle fences until he found what he neededa handmade wool garment hanging over a bush to dry.

Beyond the wall was a garden of palms, of flowering oleanders and tamarisks, cascading riots of fantastic flowers.