[See def.] Of or belonging to, native to, the colony of Victoria in Australia (named in 1851 after Queen Victoria).
In recent use occurring in a number of plant-names, as Victorian dogwood, laurel, lilac, parsnip.
1857–65. (title) The Victorian Hansard; containing the debates … of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Colony of Victoria.
1867. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 787/1. The Victorian samples [of wheat] at the last Great Exhibition ranked amongst the very best.
1889. Maiden, Useful Pl., 449. Eucalyptus globulus.… [Called] ‘Tasmanian’ or ‘Victorian Blue Gum’ from the colour of its foliage.
