- A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen
Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its
large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have
a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers
sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet. - A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a
calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high
seat in front. - An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also
Clio.
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