Oleander Synonyms

ōlē-ăndər, ōlē-ăndər
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rose bay
  2. Nerium oleander

Words Related to Oleander

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. nerium
  2. hibiscus
  3. osmanthus
  4. cistus
  5. berberis
  6. arbutus
  7. bougainvillea
  8. syringa
  9. pittosporum
  10. Crinodendron
  11. pyracantha
  12. peony

Oleander Sentence Examples

  • The oleander grows here to be a tree, and there is a banyan tree, said to be the only one growing out of doors in the United States.

  • The sugar-cane flourishes, the cotton-plant ripens to perfection, date-trees are seen in the gardens, the rocks are clothed with the prickly-pear or Indian fig, the enclosures of the fields are formed by aloes and sometimes pomegranates, the liquorice-root grows wild, and the mastic, the myrtle and many varieties of oleander and cistus form the underwood of the natural forests of arbutus and evergreen oak.

  • On the north the hills rise gradually from the shore, which is fringed with oleander bushes and indented with small bays.

  • Nerium oleander, so familiar to holidaymakers, was still flowering strongly as it tends to for nine months of the year.

  • They later learned that Tommy had gathered oleander sticks, one of the most poisonous plants in the area, and the heat from the fire had transferred the oleander poison to the hot dogs.

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