victoria

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A low, light four-wheeled carriage for two with a folding top and an elevated driver’s seat in front.

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A touring car with a folding top usually covering only the rear seat.

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The twelfth planetoid, discovered by Hind in London in 1850.

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[NL. (Lindley, 1838), named after Queen Victoria of England, to whom the first flower which blossomed in cultivation was presented in 1849.] A genus of water-lilies, belonging to the order Nymphæaceæ and tribe Nymphæeæ.

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[lowercase] A form of low, light, four-wheeled carriage, having a calash top, with seats for two persons, and an elevated driver’s seat in front.

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[lowercase] A breed of domestic pigeons, nearly the same as the hyacinth

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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.

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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.

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An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; — called also Clio.

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One of an American breed of medium-sized white hogs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.