English Explanatory Dictionary

paulownia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.

Word forms

paulownia paulownias

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.

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