English Dictionary: petunia | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for petunia | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Petunia \Pe*tu"ni*a\, n. [NL., fr. Braz. petun tobacco.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, {Petunia violacera}, with reddish purple flowers, and {P. nyctaginiflora}, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas. |