Brewer's: Geranium

(g soft). The Turks say this was a common mallow changed by the touch of Mahomet's garment. The word is from the Greek geranos (a crane); and the plant is called “Crane's Bill,” from the resemblance of the fruit to the bill of a crane.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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