What's the difference between azalea and rhododendron?
Azalea
Definition:
(n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iggy Azalea tried on wedding dresses, and Justin Bieber showed off his best dancing-while-seated moves – twice.
(2) Recent months have seen a number of white, A-list pop artists such as Lily Allen, Iggy Azalea and Taylor Swift come under fire for appropriating black music tropes and perpetuating damaging stereotypes.
(3) While one-off single SuperLove saw her edge closer to the top 40 (No 65), it seemed she was destined to enjoy chart success only through songs she’d written for other people, such as Icona Pop’s I Love It and Iggy Azalea’s US No 1 Fancy.
(4) Tuesday saw the return of sass & bide, who gathered a star-studded front row including Iggy Azalea, Zoe Kravitz and Poppy Delevingne, after a six-year hiatus.
(5) So Moshe Kasher, Michelle Wolf and Nikkie Glaser got together to name the worst jobs in America, including “bathroom attendant at a Gathering of the Juggalos” and “Iggy Azalea’s blaccent coach”.
(6) Iggy Azalea and Ora appeared onstage as spider women when they performed their hit Black Widow, as Swift, Lorde and Charli XCX danced and sang along.
(7) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
(8) Ingestion of moderate amounts of azalea pose little toxic hazard.
(9) One-hundred-and-fifty-two azalea ingestions reported to two regional poison centers over a three year period are reviewed.
(10) Bieber’s video has close to 70m views, and Iggy Azalea’s ride has been watched more than 31m times.
(11) Fast-forward, and Charli XCX is sharing massive US No 1 hits with Iggy Azalea (the super-catchy Fancy) – and getting songs on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack (the pugnaciously soppy Boom Clap).
(12) Mysterious, enclosed by twisting trunks: rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias, but viewing points take you above the cloud of maple, acer, styrax, oak leaves to reveal its rainbow vastness fringed by sea and coast: magical.
(13) You can walk inside volcanoes, and around them, and drive along empty roads fringed with millions of azaleas and hydrangeas.
(14) The well-signposted rocky trail meanders through miniature rhododendrons, gentian and azaleas.
(15) I've consulted the criminal activity chart I keep behind the sofa, and it seems this is roughly equivalent to nicking a Picasso in order to finance a hanging azalea display that will blow Mrs Jones and her rhododendrons out the bloody water.
(16) Iggy Azalea is pretending that she can't read the teleprompter.
(17) Thicke, to his credit, looks utterly fed up of singing that song, and not even a brief rap from Iggy Azalea (who isn't masturbating with a foam hand, also to her credit) can gee things up.
(18) Culture-filtrate antigens of A. fumigatus strains isolated from the soil of 4 different ornamental plants, epiphyllum (Epiphyllum truncatum), orange tree (Citrus sinensis), Alpine rose (Azalea indica) and Christmas flower (Euphorbia pulcherrima), were compared, in the immunodiffusion test, with antigens of A. fumigatus strains from aspergillosis patients prepared in an identical way.
(19) All year long, the pop star Iggy Azalea has reveled in the appropriation of hip-hop culture to great personal advantage while remaining silent on race and making inappropriate racial remarks.
(20) Fancy , the Iggy Azalea single that Charli co-wrote and has a featured performer credit on, spent seven weeks at the top of the Billboard charts , selling more than 2.7m copies in the US alone.
Rhododendron
Definition:
(n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Merely being around Soames – who is bulky, self-assured, and often speaks in similes that involve things like spaniels, grandmothers, rhododendrons and oysters – evokes sensations of an earlier, stronger Britain.
(2) The contents of 6 flavonoids in the leaves of 166 Rhododendron species were thus determined.
(3) Grayanotoxins are known to occur in the honey produced from the nectar of Rhododendron ponticum growing on the mountains of the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey and also in Japan, Nepal, Brazil, and some parts of North America and Europe.
(4) "There is one rhododendron species that we are very worried about – the hybrid Rhododendron x superponticum – but all the others can be safely grown in gardens.
(5) This paper reports a quantitative determination in the contents of flavonoids in Rhododendron leaves by HPTLC scanning method.
(6) We may just have to live with grey squirrels and rhododendrons in much of the UK, but we can and must control other invasive species – like the killer shrimp devastating ecosystems in our rivers and lakes.
(7) The Woodland Trust director of conservation, Austin Brady, said: "We are clear that continued targeted management of invasive species such as rhododendron and grey squirrels must be supported at government level.
(8) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(9) Hang a left heading towards Skye off the A87 signposted Lochalsh Woodland Garden to meander the sheltered walks along the shores of Loch Alsh through the majestic Scots pine, oak and beech trees intermingled with rhododendrons, bamboo, ferns, and hydrangeas.
(10) Mysterious, enclosed by twisting trunks: rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias, but viewing points take you above the cloud of maple, acer, styrax, oak leaves to reveal its rainbow vastness fringed by sea and coast: magical.
(11) This method, which overcomes the problems associated with basing the diagnosis on the clinical signs exhibited and untrained identification of plant materials, has been successfully applied to the investigation of a number of field outbreaks of Rhododendron poisoning in animals.
(12) Among these effective herbs, 10 were aqueous extracts of Artemisia anomala, Centella asiatica, Epimedium Sagittatum, Hibiscus mutabilis, Hosta plantaginea, Hypericum japonicum, Inula japonica, Mosla punctata, Rhododendron simsii, and Rhus chinenses, while 3 were alcohol extracts of Epimedium Sagittatum, Hypericum japonicum, and Mosla punctata.
(13) In the kitchen and herb gardens you can buy salad and vegetables for your tea before wandering on to the fern garden with its geodesic dome (one of the largest collections in Scotland), the shady rhododendron dell, tranquil Japanese garden and, in front of the elegant whitewashed house, a giant sundial, over 10 metres in diameter.
(14) The best documented examples appear to be the Ericaceae family of plants (laurels, rhododendrons, and so on) and the organophosphate chlorpyrifos.
(15) The well-signposted rocky trail meanders through miniature rhododendrons, gentian and azaleas.
(16) I've consulted the criminal activity chart I keep behind the sofa, and it seems this is roughly equivalent to nicking a Picasso in order to finance a hanging azalea display that will blow Mrs Jones and her rhododendrons out the bloody water.
(17) In the UK, grey squirrels are estimated to cause £10m of damage to trees each year, Japanese knotweed costs £1.5bn a year to eradicate and it cost £11m to remove rhododendron from one national park in Wales alone, according to the Country Land and Business Association.
(18) Using ovule clearing, more than 33,600 ovules of Rhododendron nuttallii T. W. Booth (Ericaceae) were examined for megagametophyte and early postfertilization stages at daily intervals from anthesis until 3 weeks after pollination.
(19) At present they provide training in whittling and allotment management, and have plans to expand to outdoor first aid, chainsaw control, woodland management, and rhododendron control.
(20) Will they be prosecuted for cultivating a beautiful array of rhododendrons?