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PAVONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pavonia mean?
• PAVONIA (noun)
The noun PAVONIA has 1 sense:
1. any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers
Familiarity information: PAVONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("pavonia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("pavonia" is a member of...):
genus Pavonia (genus of tropical hairy shrubs or herbs of tropics and subtropics especially South America)
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