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PEONY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does peony mean?

• PEONY (noun)
The noun PEONY has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers

Familiarity information: PEONY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PEONY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

paeony; peony

Hypernyms ("peony" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("peony" is a member of...):

genus Paeonia; Paeonia (peonies: herbaceous or shrubby plants having showy flowers)

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