Crescentia (disambiguation)
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Crescentia, a Latin word meaning growth, can refer to:
- CrescentiaCrescentiaCrescentia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to southern North America, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America...
, a genus of trees in the family BignoniaceaeBignoniaceaeThe Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and lianas , shrubs and more rarely herbaceous plants. As climber plants, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely... - Saint Crescentia, female martyr with Saint Vitus whose nurse she had been
- Crescentia (romance)Crescentia (romance)Crescentia is an Old High German chivalric romance, written in Kaiserchronik about 1150. Other versions appeared in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in prose and verse....
and the Crescentia cycle, many similarly plotted romances