Any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers

Usage examples of pavonia.

Mynheer, Michael Paw, who lorded it over the fair regions of ancient Pavonia, and the lands away south even unto the Navesink Mountains, and was, moreover, patroon of Gibbet Island.

These were the men who vegetated in the mud along the shores of Pavonia, being of the race of genuine copperheads, and were fabled to have sprung from oysters.

But their cruel massacre of some Indians who sought refuge among them at Pavonia destroyed the prospects of the settlement.

The Wappingers fled down to Pavonia (present-day Jersey City, New Jersey), just across the Hudson from Manhattan.