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Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. There are 658 species with a further 611 species as yet unresolved by Kew. They are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, India and Africa. Common names include water-willow and shrimp plant, the latter from the inflorescences, which resemble a shrimp in some species. The generic name honours Scottish horticulturist James Justice (1698–1763). They are closely related to Pachystachys.
Justicia is a ward (barrio) of Madrid belonging to the district of Centro.
Category:Wards of Madrid Category:Centro (Madrid)
Usage examples of "justicia".
When Escalante first told him about La Justicia, and showed him his medallion, he had said nothing about his Jewish heritage.
The work of La Justicia had been to save the accused, smuggling them out of the country when possible and helping them begin a new life elsewhere.
La Justicia was a hierarchical organization with a military discipline, in which women had no place.
The participants swore to pledge their lives to the service of the noble causes embraced by La Justicia, never to accept payment for their services, to keep their secret at any price, and to obey the orders of their superiors.
Otherwise he would never best a longtime member of La Justicia, as he would have to do to be accepted.
When they abandoned them, those mysterious passageways became caves for bandits, until gradually La Justicia and other secret sects took over the buried entrails of the city.
After demonstrating that he knew the history of La Justicia, he was given difficult problems for which he had to offer original solutions demanding wit, courage, and knowledge.
He simply pointed out how similar the principles of La Justicia were to those of the okahueoi his tribe.
La Justicia, Diego surprised his maestro with an outlandish idea: he planned to free a group of hostages.
Unfortunately, brother mine, I cannot count on La Justicia, so I am going to need your help.
Barcelona, where Diego kept busy with his classes, La Justicia, the taverns where he met with other students, and his swashbuckling adventures, which was his romantic way of referring to his escapades.
During the years the Inquisition had been abolished, the members of La Justicia had become careless in matters of security, convinced that in the modern world there was no place for religious fanaticism.
Diego was so absorbed in the missions of La Justicia that he stopped attending the School of Humanities, where education, like everything else in the country, was censored.
In early September, a member of La Justicia who had hidden for several weeks in the home of Maestro Manuel Escalante was arrested.
Julius Caesar and two other members of La Justicia were waiting in the shadows of an entryway, disguised as sailors, as they had agreed.