| 词汇 | azalea |
| 词源 | azalea. The ancient Greeks had the erroneous idea that this shrub required a dry, sandy soil and named it after their word for dry, azalea. Technically, azaleas are not different from rhododen- drons, but they are kept distinct from that genus by gardeners. |
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