PAEONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paeonia mean? 

• PAEONIA (noun)
  The noun PAEONIA has 1 sense:

1. peonies: herbaceous or shrubby plants having showy flowers

  Familiarity information: PAEONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAEONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Peonies: herbaceous or shrubby plants having showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Paeonia; Paeonia

Hypernyms ("Paeonia" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Paeonia"):

paeony; peony (any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers)

Holonyms ("Paeonia" is a member of...):

family Paeoniaceae; Paeoniaceae; peony family (perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America)

 Context examples 

An oral traditional Chinese herbal formulation in powder form containing a spray dried aqueous extract from the herbs Scutellaria baicalensis, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Ziziphus jujuba and Paeonia lactiflora with potential immunomodulating and chemoprotective activities.

(Chinese Herbal Formulation PHY906, NCI Thesaurus)