rhody

plural rhodies

1. alternativeAlternative form of rhodie (“rhododendron”).

   In doing the metering from the rhody leaves you will compensate for the overbrightness of the sky.

   1994, American Rhododendron Society Journal, page 67

   2 more examples

   I looked out the window and tried to see over the pink rhododendrons and down the block. […] I couldn’t see a thing but a tangle of leathery rhody leaves, and over that, two neighbors standing on the sidewalk talking.

   2007, Karen Karbo, Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 172

   Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves. […] A musket ball ripped through rhody leaves near his head.

   2014, Lori Benton, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 4

plural Rhodys

1. A surname from German.