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peony
/ˈpiəni/
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What does peony mean?
noun
- A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
- A dark red colour.
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Every snip of the scissors, as rose and peony and bluebell fell, seemed to chirp, “Mrs. Morgan is coming today.”
Her face had a kind of heavy, thoughtless beauty, like a pink peony just at the point of beginning to fade.
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This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia.
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.
The Ephemerides contains an instance of a soldier who fell insensible from the odor of a peony.