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Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
Answer for the clue "Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers ", 6 letters:
paeony
Word definitions for paeony in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peony \Pe"o*ny\, n.; pl. Peonies . [OE. pione, pioine, pioni, OF. pione, F. pivoine, L. paeonia, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, the god of healing. Cf. P[ae]an .] (Bot.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus P[ae]onia . Of the four or five species, one ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers [syn: peony ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of peony English)
Usage examples of paeony.
Her train was decorated with irises, paeonies and bambo and, rampaging through them, a stylised tiger.
A great bank of paeonies blazed in the hot sunshine and at the far end, rooks cawed in the branches of a group of tall elms.