paulownia
noun
paulownia is a noun meaning “Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-U-L-O-W-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paulownia is paulownias.
What does paulownia mean?
noun
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Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paulownia
- paulownias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paulownia?
Paulownia appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Paulownia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paulownia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paulownia come from?
Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).