Peony vs Peonylike - What's the difference?
peony | peonylike |
A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 219:
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As a noun peony
is a flowering plant of the genus paeonia with large fragrant flowers.As an adjective peonylike is
resembling or characteristic of a peony.peony
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(peonies)- The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.
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