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Saint whose feast day is December 25
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eugenia
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae . It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,000 species occur in the New World tropics, especially ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Eugenia , literally "nobility of birth," fem. of Eugenius (see Eugene ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eugenia \Eu*ge"ni*a\ ([-u]*j[=e]"n[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL. Named in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy.] (Bot.) A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce ...
Usage examples of eugenia.
Behind her came her daughter, Eugenia, prettily gowned in white silk, with a stocky gentleman, undoubtedly Lord Bennington, whose fair hair gleamed with pomade.
The next dance was forming, and Lord Bennington, with apparent boredom, was leading Eugenia, all smiles, to the set.
EMILY DICKENSON Chapter Thirty-six Thursday, August 29, 1867 Boise City, Idaho Territory My dear Aunt Eugenia and dearest Shannon, We arrived in Boise yesterday, and as much as I loved my native Georgia, I think I am going to feel very much at home here.
Eugenia had realised at once that Mr Grenfell was brimming over with new ideas and spent the first enthusiastic six months carrying them out, marvelling the while that he had never so much as hinted to Sister Atkins that he had them in mind.
Eugenia, that the sooner -the executors are satisfied, the sooner the Leabrook will be able to move the Daventry glass collection here to the museum.
Eugenia paused in her unpacking to lean her elbows on the sill and gaze around her.
Eugenia watched Cyrus remove the worn leather jacket he had put on over his aloha shirt and lower himself into a chair.
That young lady, reflected Eugenia, had changed overnight, as it were, from a chrysalis into a butterfly.
And Eugenia had never looked at him again after she had seen Crile – never seriously looked at him.
When Colfax declares they must pose as a couple, Eugenia protests in terms as loud as his Hawaiian shirts.
It glowed in the carefully lit display cases, fragile but powerful links to the past that never failed to enthrall Eugenia.
He drew back farther into the eugenias, convinced that she possessed the power to see him as clearly as he saw her.
Sheener's place was further cloaked by overgrown shrubbery-azaleas, eugenias, and red-flowering hibiscus.
When she got there and stepped into the yard, she found that old eugenias were planted along the iron fence to the left and right of the gate.
As I rounded the curve, the eugenias gave way to low borders of white sun azaleas and the drive flattened to a broad S that cut through a rising swath of emerald lawn.