PEONY

noun (plural -nies) Etymology: Middle English piony, from Anglo-French peonie, pioiné, from Latin paeonia, from Greek paiōnia, from Paiōn Paeon, physician of the gods Date: 14th century any of a genus ( Paeonia of the family Paeoniaceae) of chiefly Eurasian plants with large often double flowers, the flower of a ~