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pavia noun. Now chiefly Horticulture. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Peter Paaw, (Pavius) (1589-1617), professor of botany at Leiden.]
Any of various buckeyes of the former genus Pavia (now a section of the genus Aesculus) characterized by having a smooth, not prickly, capsule; esp. the red buckeye, Aesculus pavia.