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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
petunia
noun
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▪ 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 on the wall, then went intO his room to get his wallet and keys.
▪ He showed her the fake petunias, tearing open the back so he could give her half the money.
▪ Her head went right down and she started sniffing the petunias.
▪ In the fake petunias, outside.
▪ Some wild flowers have just appeared and Ron says many of his annuals, like petunias, self-seed.
▪ Then he stared at the fake petunias up on the wall and got an idea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petunia

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, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
petunia

1825, from Modern Latin Petunia (1789), from French petun (16c.), an obsolete word for "tobacco plant," from Portuguese petum, evidently from Guarani (Paraguay) pety. The petunia has a botanical affinity to the tobacco plant. See tobacco.

Wiktionary
petunia

a. Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. n. 1 Any of the flowering plants of genus ''Petunia'', of which most garden varieties are hybrids. 2 A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.

WordNet
petunia

n. any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers

Wikipedia
Petunia

Petunia is genus of 35 species of flowering plants of South American origin, closely related to tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers in the same family, Solanaceae. The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi–Guarani language. An annual, most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids ( P. × atkinsiana, also known as P. × hybrida).

Petunia (disambiguation)

Petunia is a genus of flowering plants.

Petunia may also refer to:

  • Petunia, Virginia
  • 968 Petunia, minor planet
  • Aunt Petunia (disambiguation), several fictional characters, including Harry Potter's aunt
  • Joe and Petunia, characters from a series of public information films
  • Petunia, character from Happy Tree Friends
  • Petunia, an independent 2012 film featuring Thora Birch, Michael Urie and Tobias Segal
  • Petunia Pig, cartoon character
  • Ms. Petunia, the 11th ghost Luigi encounters in the Nintendo game Luigi's Mansion
  • Petunia, the Gardener's Daughter, a song by Elvis Presley
Petunia (film)

Petunia is a 2012 comedy-drama film. It was co-written and directed by Ash Christian. Thora Birch, who stars in the film, and her father Jack Birch, are credited as producers.

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.