Other forms: petunias
A petunia is a trumpet-shaped bedding flower grown in tubs. Plant petunias, trailing petunias, a tub of petunias.
It is in the same family as tobacco, tomato and potato, and the name comes from an old French word for tobacco. Deadheading keeps it flowering, because a plant that sets seed stops making flowers.
1nounpetuniaA trumpet-shaped bedding flower.
“The window boxes were full of pink and purple petunias.”
petunia is a flower.
From French petun, an old word for tobacco, itself from a Tupi word. The plant is a tobacco relative.
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English, today
petunia
Borrowed from mul-tax Petunia. mul-tax Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“tobacco”), from tpw petyma (“tobacco”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA