Peony
['piːənɪ] or ['piəni]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers.
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Definition
(n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
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Definition
n. a genus of plants of the natural order Ranunculace with large showy flowers carmine in some white.
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Examples
- Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I am too stupid to learn, I blundered out, as red as a peony. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But what is Father's friend saying to make you look like a peony? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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