Noun: petunia
| Singular | petunia |
| Plural | petunias |
Sample Sentences
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Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems. [2002, Larry Hodgson, Annuals for Every Purpose, page 57:]
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The small purple petunias are produced in profusion and without ceasing during the entire season. [2003, Norman Winter, Tough-As-Nails Flowers for the South, page 39:]
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Closely related calibrachoas, often called miniature petunias, offer dainty petunia-like blossoms that are perfect for planting in pots.
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No matter what type of petunias you choose, they all prefer plenty of sun. [2013, Jan Riggenbach, Your Midwest Garden: An Owner's Manual, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like petunia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Tupian *pe
3. Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨm
4. Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm
5. Old Tupi petymabor.
6. French pétun
7. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
8. Proto-Italic *-ijos
9. Proto-Italic *-ios
10. Old Latin -ios
11. Latin -ius
12. Latin -iader.
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
15. Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
16. Proto-Hellenic *-íā
17. Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)der.
18. Translingual -ia
19. taxonomic name Petuniabor.
20. English petunia
21. Borrowed from taxonomic name Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“tobacco”), from Old Tupi petyma (“tobacco”). See: French Nouns '
pétun'.