Peony
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
"The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness."
- 2 any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers wordnet
- 3 A dark red colour.
"She was a fine and handsome girl—not handsomer than some others, possibly—but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape."
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More examples"The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness."
Etymology
From Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).
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