Look up: Peony

1. peony
   [n] - any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
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2. Peony
   Pe'o·ny noun ; plural Peonies . [ Middle English pione , pioine , pioni , Old French pione , French pivoine , Latin paeonia , Greek ..., from ..., ..., the god of healing. Confer Pæan ...
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3. peony
   Origin: OE. Pione, pioine, pioni, OF. Pione, F. Pivoine, L. Paeonia, Gr, fr, the god of healing. Cf. Paean. ... <botany> 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 c...
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4. peony
   paeony noun any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
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5. Peony
   • (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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6. peony
   any of the flowering plants in the genus Paeonia (family Paeoniaceae) known for their large, showy blossoms. All but two species are native to ... [1 related articles]
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7. Peony
   Peony is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Peony Flower` Where is it used? The name Peony is mainly used In English. The name Peony doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Peony seems to be unique!
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8. peony
   Any of a group of perennial plants native to Europe, Asia, and North America, remarkable for their large, round, brilliant white, pink, or red flowers. Most popular in gardens are the common peony (P. officinalis), the white peony (P. lactiflora), and the taller tree peony (P. suffruticosa). ...
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9. peony
   peony (pē'unē) , any plant of the genus Paeonia of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family, although placed in the order Dilleniales as a separate family, the Paeoniaceae, by many modern botanists), mostly Eurasian species popular as garden and florists' flowers. Herbaceous peonie...
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10. Peony
    Peony (Paeonia officinalis) is a poisonous perennial herb of the family Paeoniceae with tuberous fleshy roots and a stout, erect, branched, glabrous stem. The leaves are ternate or biternate and have ovate to lanceolate segments, dark-green above and a lighter colour below. The flowers are terminal,...
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11. Peony
    `Peony` or `paeony` is a name for plants in the genus `Paeonia`, the only genus in the flowering plant family `Paeoniaceae`. They are native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America. Boundaries between species are not clear and estimates of the number of species range from 25 <re...
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12. Peony
    (novel) `Peony` is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China`s Kaifeng Jews. Plot introduction: Peony is set in the 1850s in the city of K`aifeng, in the province of Honan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, ...
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