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5 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
originFrom Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0