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Pavonia

noun
1.
Any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers.



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Saturnia pavonia
genus Pavonia


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... others are like little brown twigs, and many are so strangely marked or humped, that when motionless they can hardly be taken to be living creatures at all. Mr. Andrew Murray has remarked how closely the larva of the peacock moth (Saturnia pavonia-minor) harmonizes in its ground colour with that of the young buds of heather on which it feeds, and that the pink spots with which it is decorated correspond with the flowers and ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Pavonia" :   bush, genus Pavonia, Saturnia pavonia, shrub


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