From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpeonype‧o‧ny /ˈpiːəni/ noun (plural peonies) [countable] HBPDLGa garden plant with large round flowers that are dark red, white, or pink
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peony• Wednesday afternoon, he'd just finished hanging hundreds of peony blooms to dry.• The day the peony falls I will be sunk already in the sorrow of a lost spring.• Until the peony blooms I will be waiting.• The peony gone, the year is over for me.• The peony loosens and the sunflower turns.Origin peony (900-1000) Latin paeonia, from Greek, from Paion Paeon, doctor of the ancient Greek gods 