Definitions for Peony

Peony pe·o·ny

Spelling: [pee-uh-nee]
IPA: /ˈpi ə ni/

Peony is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Peony (enopy).

Definitions for Peony

noun

  1. any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.

Origin of Peony

before 1000; Middle English Late Latin peōnia, Latin paeōnia Greek paiōnía peony, akin to Paiā́n paean; replacing Middle English pione Anglo-French Old French peone

Examples for Peony

More often than not, peony went with green, choosing to take care of both herself and Rita.

Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much.

You can clamber on the snowdrift, peony, and reach them easily.

It's awful, I know—I am abominably ashamed, I am as red as a peony.

Upon him drifted Mrs. Worthington, like a peony in the tideway.

I know men who fall like this into the iris, the dahlia, the gladiolus and the peony.

Her two previous novels, Snowflower and the Secret Fan and peony in Love, were also bestsellers.

Paul's face was like a peony for colour, but he pouted his lips also, and bent to meet hers.

It is our little snow-image which peony and I have been making.

His idea of color was a peony, with the dew of early morning on its petals.

Word Value for Peony
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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