Meaning of paullinia | Babel Free

Definitions

Any vine of the genus Paullinia.

Examples

“[…]; the far-spreading shoots of the mellifluous paullinias, of the burning dalechampias and the bauhinia with its strangely lobated leaves;”

“The road along the slope of the mountain was so pretty, among myrtles, begonias, and paullinias;”

“A delightful residence was made of the house; it was raised a storey, surrounded by a verandah, and half hidden under beautiful trees—mimosas, fig-sycamores, bauhinias, and paullinias, whose trunks were invisible beneath a network of scarlet-flowered bromelias and passion-flowers.”

“Every day brought new flowers, forcing them out of the ground in motley patterns in the gardens by the sea, pouring them out over the branches of the trees down there—paullinias like giant violets and magnolias like huge purple-stained tulips.”

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