Noun: petunia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: pe‧tù‧nia
| Singular f | petunia |
| Plural f | petunie |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like petunia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“tobacco”), from Old Tupi petyma (“tobacco”). See: French Nouns '
pétun'.
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