paulownia

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

paulownia (plural paulownias)

1. Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 62:

     “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”

• empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa)
• foxglove tree (Paulownia tomentosa)
• princess tree (Paulownia tomentosa)

• IPA^(key): /po.lɔ.nja/

paulownia m (plural paulownias)

1. paulownia

• “paulownia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /pawˈlɔv.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -ɔvɲa
• Syllabification: pau‧low‧nia

paulownia f

1. paulownia

• paulownia in Polish dictionaries at PWN