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

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Usage examples (36)
  • This peony is very reminiscent of HEAVEN ON EARTH.
  • HA Lisa, I have to laugh at you calling the peony a thing!
  • "The peony is a Chinese symbol for the feminine nature or sensuality," she says as she moves her body to give the bird wings.
  • Ants are attracted to the sweet syrup in peony’s flower buds, but are not needed, as the old-timers will tell you, for flower production.
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