Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Paulownia, native to East Asia, having large, heart-shaped, opposite leaves and pyramidal panicles of purplish or white flowers with a spotted interior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ornamental trees of the order Scrophularineæ and the tribe Cheloneæ, characterized by the absence of a sterile stamen, and by a deeply cleft scurfy calyx with five broad and fleshy obtuse valvate lobes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species,
Paulownia imperialis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any member of the genus
Paulownia , comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name means "temple of the precious paulownia tree" for the graceful, flowering tree that stood on the restaurant grounds for years, according to Kim Seok-woong, the restaurant owner's former butler.
Ojinam, Legendary Seoul Restaurant, Closes To Make Way For Hotel 2010
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The name means "temple of the precious paulownia tree" for the graceful, flowering tree that stood on the restaurant grounds for years, according to Kim Seok-woong, the restaurant owner's former butler.
Ojinam, Legendary Seoul Restaurant, Closes To Make Way For Hotel 2010
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The name means "temple of the precious paulownia tree" for the graceful, flowering tree that stood on the restaurant grounds for years, according to Kim Seok-woong, the restaurant owner's former butler.
Ojinam, Legendary Seoul Restaurant, Closes To Make Way For Hotel 2010
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The name means "temple of the precious paulownia tree" for the graceful, flowering tree that stood on the restaurant grounds for years, according to Kim Seok-woong, the restaurant owner's former butler.
Ojinam, Legendary Seoul Restaurant, Closes To Make Way For Hotel 2010
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The name means "temple of the precious paulownia tree" for the graceful, flowering tree that stood on the restaurant grounds for years, according to Kim Seok-woong, the restaurant owner's former butler.
Ojinam, Legendary Seoul Restaurant, Closes To Make Way For Hotel 2010
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Eight years ago, he planted 10 acres of paulownia trees on several fields around his house.
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In the shade of a southern magnolia or a flowering Chinese paulownia or perhaps an elm or a beech planted by Jefferson one could watch the flow of traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue or contemplate the north façade of the White House; or try to fathom–as nearly everyone did–what marvelous bit of ingenuity kept the equestrian bronze of Andrew Jackson in such uncanny equilibrium.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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In the shade of a southern magnolia or a flowering Chinese paulownia or perhaps an elm or a beech planted by Jefferson one could watch the flow of traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue or contemplate the north façade of the White House; or try to fathom–as nearly everyone did–what marvelous bit of ingenuity kept the equestrian bronze of Andrew Jackson in such uncanny equilibrium.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The outside of the box was made of Chinese quince, the inside of paulownia, and the whole was lined with amethyst silk.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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The outside of the box was made of Chinese quince, the inside of paulownia, and the whole was lined with amethyst silk.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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