Examples of andromeda in a Sentence
Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
The andromeda alongside my front steps mysteriously died over the winter.
—New York Times, 25 May 2018
Lace bugs are extremely common on both azaleas and andromeda, shrubs that like moist organic soil and partial shade.
—Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
Your andromeda and azaleas have lace bugs, an insect that inserts its feeding tube into the leaf and sucks out the contents of plant cells.
—Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata) which cover these tender places on the earth’s surface.
—Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there,—the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora,—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.
—Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
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Word History
Noun (1)
borrowed from New Latin Andromeda, genus name (now applied only to the single species Andromeda polifolia), after the mythological andromeda
Note: The genus was introduced by linnaeus in Species plantarum, vol. 1 (Stockholm, 1753), p. 393. In his Flora Lapponica (Amsterdam, 1737), pp. 126-27, Linnaeus develops an elaborate comparison between the characteristics of the plant Andromeda polifolia and the physical and mythological features of Andromeda.
Noun (2)
Latin Andromeda (genitive Andromedae), borrowed from Greek Andromédē
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from Greek Andromedē, a mythological princess
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