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US
/ˈpiəni/
]
[ UK /pˈiəni/ ]
[ UK /pˈiəni/ ]
NOUN
- any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
How To Use peony In A Sentence
- This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
- The moutan peony should be grown in a bright place, with direct sunlight.
- Tang's excellent depictions of the 160 odd characters in the ‘Peony Pavilion’ has earned him centuries of acclamation from generations of dramatists.
- We used modern biological extraction technology to obtain extracts of reishi, ginseng, wolfberry, peony, and licorice.
- Determined to protect their masters, however, two local police captains hatch a plan to flush out and kill the new leader of the group and begin by tracking her down to a house of pleasure named the Peony Pavilion.
- Anyway, I arrive at my own yard and see my overgrown oleaster hedge in bloom with its teeny-tiny, very un-peony-like flowers.
- A home scent, this crystallike potpourri contains Egyptian resin infused with notes of iced pineapple, peony, dianthus and white musk.
- Richardson & Wrench The property has dry-stone walls, a vegetable garden, citrus orchard and parterre, or ornamental garden shown with peony trees and roses. Australian Country Estate
- Also potted a pink peony (my favourite flower as I recall I told you about) also with some blue lobelia. Vivace - French Word-A-Day
- The peony sees with relish, too follow public a mushroom carefree cachinnation.