Victoria

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850;

— called also Clio.

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

III. Victoria ·noun 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.

IV. Victoria ·noun 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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