单词 | peony |
释义 | peony From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Gardening Plantspeonype‧o‧ny /ˈpiːəni/ noun (plural peonies) [countable]HBPDLGa garden plant with large round flowers that are dark red, white, or pinkExamples from the Corpuspeony• Wednesday afternoon, he'd just finished hanging hundreds of peony blooms to dry.• The day the peony falls I will be sunk already in the sorrow of a lost spring.• Until the peony blooms I will be waiting.• The peony gone, the year is over for me.• The peony loosens and the sunflower turns.Origin peony (900-1000) Latin paeonia, from Greek, from Paion Paeon, doctor of the ancient Greek gods |
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