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peony (iou)



peony noun & adjective. OE.
[Latin peonia, paeonia from Greek paionia, from Paion the physician of the gods: see -Y3.]
A. noun.
Any of various stout perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs constituting the genus Paeonia (family Paeoniaceae), much grown for their showy globular flowers, freq. double, and esp. crimson, pink, or white in colour; a flower or flowering stem of such a plant. OE.
tree peony.
The colour especially associated with peonies, a dark pink or crimson. E20.
b. adjective. Resembling a peony in colour, dark pink or crimson; (of the cheeks) plump and rosy. E19.