Definition of Peony. Meaning of Peony. Synonyms of Peony

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Definition of Peony

Peony
Peony Pe"o*ny, n.; pl. Peonies. [OE. pione, pioine, pioni, OF. pione, F. pivoine, L. paeonia, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, the god of healing. Cf. P[ae]an.] (Bot.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus P[ae]onia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation. [Written also p[ae]ony, and piony.]

Meaning of Peony from wikipedia

- The peony or paeony (/ˈpiːəni/) is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia (/piːˈoʊniə/), the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae (/piːˌoʊniˈeɪsi.iː/)...
- Peony, published in the UK as The Bondmaid, is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews. Peony is set in...
- Look up peony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The peony is a flowering plant. Peony may also refer to: HMS Peony, the name of two Royal Navy ships...
- Tree peony is the vernacular name for the section Moutan of the plant genus Paeonia, or one of the species or cultivars belonging to this section. It...
- The Peony Pavilion (Chinese: 牡丹亭; pinyin: Mǔdān tíng; Wade–Giles: Mu-tan t'ing), also named The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, is a romantic tragicomedy...
- alekˈsandra ˈkret͡su]; born 21 July 1993), known professionally as Ester Peony (formerly only Ester), is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She represented...
- in the film and The Valiant Red Peony was a big hit. The Valiant Red Peony is the first episode in the Valiant Red Peony aka Hibotan Bakuto film series...
- Peony in Love is the fifth of Lisa See's novels. Her previous novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Peony in Love emphasize the difficulty 19th- and...
- Paeonia × suffruticosa is a name used for a group of cultivars of tree peonies that are the result of hybridisation with species exclusively belonging...
- Paeonia lactiflora (Chinese peony, Chinese herbaceous peony, or common garden peony) is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family...