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From magnolia + -ous, though its meaning might have been influenced by Latin magnus (“grand, mighty, large”).
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From magnolia + -ous, though its meaning might have been influenced by Latin magnus (“grand, mighty, large”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.