peony

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  1. noun Any of various garden plants of the genus Paeonia, having large, variously colored flowers with numerous stamens and several pistils.

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  • To highlight the scoring, I decided to sponge on a little Antique Linen Distress Ink. Once I did that, the sky background of the peony was just too darn bright, so I added some Antique Linen there as well to dull the colors.
  • Exquisite handmade Chinese embroideries of the phoenix and peony are also widely used. —  My Sinchew -
  • This peony is vigorous, disease - and deer-resistant, with stems so sturdy it doesn't need staking. —  The Seattle Times
  • Thus you know now what you ought to know, and mark it down for the future, Monsieur Zouave Coucou felt as if it were best for him to sink into the ground; red like a peony he began to stutter Pardon me, I intended nothing wrong The widow of the gendarme officer had compassion on his embarrassment Well, do not take it to heart too much," she said, kindly. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
  • But before I had proceeded far, steps were heard in the shop, and the next moment the door flew open and in popped Mrs. Boppert, with a face like a peony in full blossom. —  That Affair Next Door
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  1. Middle English pione, from Old English pēonie and Anglo-Norman peonie, both from Medieval Latin peōnia, from Latin paeōnia, from Greek paiōniā, perhaps from Paiōn, Apollo, physician of the gods.

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  1. Formerly also pæony, after L.; also piony, early modern English pionee, dial, piny, from Middle English pione, pioine, pianie, piane, from Old French peone, pioine, French pivoine = Spanish peonía = Portuguese Italian peonia = Anglo-Saxon peonia (after L.), from Latin pæonia, Middle Latin also peonia, from Greek παιωνία, the peony, so called because regarded as medicinal, from Παιών, Παιάν, the physician of the gods, also an epithet of Apollo: see pæon.
 

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