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Petunia

noun

Any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers.

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America. Synonym: genus Petunia.

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"Petunia" Quotes from Famous Books

... with morning-glories—I think they're beautiful and in that large bed I've planted poppies, snap-dragon, and marigolds. This round one is full of larkspur and bachelor's buttons. I have phlox and petunias, too—did you ever see a petunia seed?" ...

— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed

... now that would have maddened a man more ambitious than Eddie or a woman more restless than Ellaphine. Their world was like the petunia-garden—the flowers were not orchids or telegraph-pole-stemmed roses; but the flower faces were joyous, their frocks neat, ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... petals. The petals of one kind of flower are generally different in shape, size and color from those of other flowers. In some flowers the petals are united into a corolla of one piece which may be funnel-shaped, as in the morning glory or petunia of the garden, or tubular as in the honeysuckle, wheel-shaped as in the tomato and potato, or of various ...

— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich

... lying in her little trundle bed, while Petunia, her small black maid, pulled off her stockings, but she got up obediently and laved her face in buttermilk. "I don't reckon there's any use about the other," she said. "I believe the Lord's jest leavin' me in sin as a warnin' to you and Petunia," and she got into her trundle ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

Words linked to "Petunia" : hybrid petunia, Solanaceae, flower, asterid dicot genus, potato family, family Solanaceae