Noun

(peonies)

A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.

* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 219:

The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa .

* 1876 — " No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.

"The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

The flower of this plant.

Noun

(vo-noun)