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paulownia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables
paulow-n-ia
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Pawlowna, Па́вловна

Inflected Forms

paulownias (plural)

Questions

What does paulownia mean?
Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
Where does paulownia come from?
It is traced to German.

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