DictionaryRoot: hydor
Greek
hydor
water
Forms
- hydr-
- hydro- — Combining form with a linking vowel.
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *wed-, ‘water; wet.’
Note
English water is a distant relative, inherited through Germanic.
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noun
hydrangea
high-DRAYN-juh/haɪˈdreɪndʒə/
A shrub with large clusters of showy flowers.
Etymology
The water-and-vessel combination refers to the shrub’s cup-shaped seed pods. These small containers supplied the naming image for the plant with large clusters of blossoms.