Petunia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various widely cultivated South American plants of the genus Petunia, having alternate, entire leaves and funnel-shaped flowers in colors from white to purple.
  • n. A moderate to dark purple.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A genus of flowering plants, Petunia; most garden varieties are hybrids.
  • n. A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
  • adj. Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and Petunia nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of ornamental plants of the gamopetalous order Solanaceæ and the tribe Salpiglossidæ, distinguished by the five perfect stamens, funnelform corolla, and entire capsule-valves.
  • n. [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers
  • n. annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America
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