paullinia

English

Noun

paullinia (plural paullinias)

1. Any vine of the genus Paullinia.
   • 1824, Joh[ann] Bapt[ist] von Spix, C[arl] F[riedrich] Phil[ipp] von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], pages 241–242:

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

   • 1830, [Jane Marcet], Bertha’s Visit to Her Uncle in England, volume I, London: John Murray, […], page 46:

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

   • 1881, Jules Verne, translated by W. J. Gordon, The Giant Raft (Part I); Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], page 32:

     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.

   • 1919, J[ens] P[eter] Jacobsen, translated by Hanna Astrup Larsen, Niels Lyhne, New York, N.Y.: The American-Scandinavian Foundation; London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, page 126:

     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.