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petunia
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Word definitions for petunia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petunia \Pe*tu"ni*a\, n. [NL., fr. Braz. petun tobacco.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera , with reddish purple flowers, and Petunia nyctaginiflora , ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among the flowers that did really well in last year's hot summer were alyssum, geraniums and petunias. ▪ During this time the best double petunias were named varieties raised from cuttings. ▪ He put the fake petunias back up ...
Usage examples of petunia.
The britzka went straight across the beds of petunias and flowering tobacco and halted by the house.
With fresh anguish she visualized her father on his haunches before the petunias, the pansies he loved so much.
Petunia back into the shadow under the side-wall of the Picturedrome, and leaned back against the edifice while I mopped my brow.
Just what he needed in the last weeks before he could leave Privet Drive-Aunt Petunia having a mid-life crisis.
He turned to see what was surely one of the strangest sights the world had ever seen: Petunia Dursley, dressed like a witch, seated next to Albus Dumbledore in a tiny boat.
Her thighs were slightly apart, and she was aroused and invitingly open down there, and there peeked out dainty, glistening ruffles of soft pink, like the fluted edges of dew-damp petunia blossoms.
At that moment, however, a horrible gagging sound erupted behind him, and Aunt Petunia started to scream.
Inter-spersed with the trees and neatly clipped shrubs were vast flower-beds of geraniums, gladiolas, and petunias --- bordered by scores of rosebushes.
Some were beginning to penetrate this remote section of the Styrian Salzkammergut although the other lakes offered more in ready-made pleasure: boats for hire, swimming pools and picture-pretty inns, petunias in window boxes, waitresses in dirndls, folk music and dancing and general GemUtlichkeit.
Potter was attending the event with his maternal aunt, one Petunia Dursley, and two other Muggles who live in the village.
Flowers include nasturtiums, marigolds, petunias, geraniums, and chrysanthemums.
The tubs of geraniums and petunias flanking the door were plastic-tubs and flowers both-and dusty to boot.
Someone had recently put in flats of pansies and petunias, now drooping from the transplant process.
People around town remembered the days when Sebastian had kept his place shipshape, when petunias had flowered in the beds beneath the front windows, when the anchor that lay scuttled in the soil of the front yard had been kept a glistening white.
Under her direction, we bought dozens of flats of just-budding impatiens, petunia, and marigold, as well as two long troughs, and sacks of potting compost.