Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of shrubby twining plants of the order Sapindaceæ, type of the tribe Paullinieæ, characterized by irregular flowers and pyriform capsule.
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Examples
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Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus.
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* Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea, * at the foot of which the aristolochiae, paullinia, and other creepers vegetate.
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They carry only two or three Indians; but fifteen or sixteen of these rafts are fastened to each other with the stems of the paullinia, the dolichos, and other creeping plants.
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They carry only two or three Indians; but fifteen or sixteen of these rafts are fastened to each other with the stems of the paullinia, the dolichos, and other creeping plants.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Besides the spadix and the fruit of the seje palm, the Indians of Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea, * (* Laurus persea (alligator pear).) at the foot of which the aristolochiae, paullinia, and other creepers vegetate.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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