petunia
/pɪˈtjuːnɪə
/noun
A South American plant of the nightshade family which has white, purple, or red funnel-shaped flowers, with many ornamental varieties.
- Petunia × hybrida, family Solanaceae.
- White cyclamen, snapdragons, petunias and alyssum are cool-season annuals you can add now.
- Geraniums, pansies, petunias, primroses and snapdragons could provide shades of red late fall through spring.
Origin
Modern Latin, from French petun, from Guarani petȳ 'tobacco' (to which these plants are related).
Rhymes
- look a fright
- look after
- look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
- lookahead
- lookalike
- look-and-say
- look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
- look as if one has seen a ghost
- look back
- look back at/on
- look before you leap
- lookbook
- look daggers at
- lookdown
- look down on
- look down one's nose at
- looked-after
- looked-for
- looked-up-to
- looker
- looker-in
- looker-on
- looker-out
- looker-upper
- look for all the world like