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Definition of Pavonia
1. Noun. Any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pavonia
Literary usage of Pavonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City by Harry James Carman (1919)
"LEXINGTON AVENUE AND pavonia FERRY RAILROAD COMPANY Another company which obtained
its franchise in accordance with the Cantor Law was the Lexington Avenue ..."
2. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"PATENT то CLASS JANSEN BACKER FOE LAND AT pavonia. Petrus Stuyvesant etc. with the
Honble Council declare, that we have to-day, date underwritten, ..."
3. History of the State of New York by John Romeyn Brodhead (1874)
"Nine Indians, coming to pavonia with friendly demonstrations, approached the
house of Jacob ... and houses, and cattle, and corn at pavonia. ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1857)
"T having been solemnly resolved that the seat of empire should be removed from
the green shores of pavonia to the pleasant island of Manna-hata, ..."
5. The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by William Curtis (1792)
"С 168 ] ' IRIS pavonia. PEACOCK IRIS. daß and Order. ... We have our doubts
whether the plant here figured be the pavonia of the ..."
6. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock, C. J. H. Warden, David Hooper (1890)
"The genus pavonia is named after Don Josef Pavon, a botanical traveller in Peru.
Ainslie (Mat. Mod. ii., 297,) notices the use of P. odorata by the Hindus, ..."
7. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Godart has separated from them, by the generic name of pavonia, Those species in
... The edge of the second joint of the inferior Palpi in pavonia, Morpho, ..."
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