| 释义 |
‖ Pavia Bot.|ˈpeɪvɪə|
[mod.L.: named by Boerhaave 1720, in honour of Peter Paaw (Pavius), Professor of Botany at Leiden 1589–1617.]
A genus of trees and shrubs (family Sapindaceæ) closely allied to the Horse-chestnut, from which they are distinguished by having a smooth, not prickly, capsule; hence called Buck-eye, or Smooth-fruited Horse-chestnut. Pavia rubra, the Red Horse-chestnut, a slender tree, twenty or thirty feet high, a native of the mountains of Virginia and Carolina, is a well-known ornamental tree.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Pavia, in botany, the name of a genus of plants described by Boerhaave and Linnæus. 1766J. Bartram Jrnl. 27 Jan. in W. Stork Acc. E. Florida 54 Now the ash, maple, elm, and pavia, are all green. 1882Garden 24 June 447/2 The Pavias constitute a group of trees allied to the Horse Chestnuts. |