Meaning & use
Petunia
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A garden plant with funnel-shaped, often brightly colored flowers, widely grown as an ornamental annual.
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She planted purple petunias along the front walkway.
The hanging baskets overflowed with trailing petunias all summer.
A note on using this word
The name derives from the French petun, a word for tobacco, since petunias belong to the same family as tobacco plants.
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