peony
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Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία, from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiōn, “Paean, the physician of the gods; a physician”).
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peony (plural peonies)
- The Paeonia genus of flowering plants with large fragrant flowers. [from 10th c.]
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 219:
- The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 219:
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Paeonia genus of flowering plants
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