HBPa bush with bright flowers which keeps its leaves in winter 杜鹃
Examples from the Corpus
rhododendron• Shrubs under siegeAdultweevils particularly like camellias and rhododendrons, nibblingnotches around the edges of leaves.• For years it was hidden behind other trees and rhododendron bushes.• In the early years I spent every Sunday bashingrhododendrons - it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer.• A large grey stone mansion, surrounded by rhododendrons.• He grew rhododendron, hydrangea, strawberries, tomatoes, basil.• The calcareous clays, such as East Anglian boulder clay, are alkaline and therefore will not suitazaleas or rhododendrons.• He had nearly forgotten about the small house next to him, shielded as it was by the rhododendronhedge.
Originrhododendron
(1600-1700)Modern LatinGreek, from rhodon“rose” + dendron“tree”