Definition of Peonies. Meaning of Peonies. Synonyms of Peonies

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Definition of Peonies

Peonies
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 Peonies from wikipedia

- usually lasting for only 7–10 days. Peonies are po****r garden plants in temperate regions. Herbaceous peonies are also sold as cut flowers on a large...
- Tree peonies have been in culture in China for millennia, and it is likely that hybrids came into being in gardens, where different wild tree peony species...
- He Weifang, a merchant's daughter who has the ability to cultivate rare peonies and Jiang Changyang, a close minister of the emperor. The series was a...
- also belongs here. Bud Fruit Flower Flowering Tree peony (Paeonia rockii) Hong, D.-Y. (2010), Peonies of the World, Kew Publishing and Missouri Botanical...
- 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...
- stylistic elements of The Peony Pavilion as well as hip-hop imagery: a break dancer does tricks atop a pavilion and pink peonies turn into speakers. A performer...
- The Peony Pavilion is a 1998 production by Peter Sellars, in a mix of Chinese and English translation, of the Ming Dynasty play The Peony Pavilion. Part...
- Carl Rosenfield's neighboring Peony Gardens were established 35 years earlier, in 1884, with 25 acres (100,000 m2) of peonies in several hundred varieties...
- 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...
- Black Woman with Peonies also known as Négresse aux pivoines, Young Woman with Peonies, or Negress with Peonies, is a pair of paintings created by the...