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pavonia

UK/pəˈvəʊ.ni.ə/US/pəˈvoʊ.ni.ə/

pavonia noun: any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.

pavonia: any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows
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Noun

pavonia (plural pavonias)

  1. Any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.

pavonia meaning in Tamil

pavonia in Tamil

Pavonia
முட்டி muṭṭi

Forms of pavonia

pluralpavonias

Origin of pavonia

From oblique stem of Latin pāvō, pāvōnis (“peacock, peafowl”) + -ia, named after Spanish physician and botanist José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, with Spanish Pavón ultimately from Latin pāvō.

Words that rhyme with pavonia

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Questions about pavonia

What does pavonia mean?
Pavonia means any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.
What is pavonia in Tamil?
Pavonia in Tamil is முட்டி (muṭṭi). See Pavonia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pavonia?
Pavonia is a noun.
How do you pronounce pavonia?
Pavonia is pronounced /pəˈvəʊ.ni.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pavonia?
The plural of pavonia is pavonias.

Words near pavonia in the dictionary

  1. pavonated
  2. pavonazzetto
  3. Pavonazzo
  4. pavone
  5. pavones
  6. pavonia
  7. pavonian
  8. pavonias
  9. pavonine
  10. pavoninin
  11. pavoninins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pavonia (page history and authors); முட்டி (Tamil) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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