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Answer for the clue "Genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods ", 8 letters:
virgilia

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Virgilia is the wife of Coriolanus in William Shakespeare 's play Coriolanus (1607–1610), in which same play Volumnia is his mother. With respect to the legendary figure Caius Marcius Coriolanus , some accounts (Brewer 1898) say that his wife's name was ...

Usage examples of virgilia.

That Virgilia Samms was the most accomplished muscle-reader of her times.

Full rapport is more intimate than a kiss: no one except her father had ever really put a Lens on Virgilia Samms.

Kinnison called his own wife and their daughter, Virgilia Samms, and Mrs.

Thus, very shortly, Virgilia Samms found herself, completely helpless and completely unrecognizable, walking awkwardly out of the house between a businesslike doctor and a solicitous nurse.

Valeria wants Virgilia to come out on the town with her but Virgilia will not.

To a situation like that of the banishment he proved easily equal: indeed, he gave that magnificent outburst of scorn with tremendous power: but it was in the pathetic scene with Volumnia and Virgilia that he reached the summit of the Shakespearean conception.