OVIEDA, in botany: A genus of the angiospermia order, belonging to the didynamia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 4th order, Perianate. The calyx is quinquedid; the tube of the corolla almost cylindrical above, and very long; the berry globose and dispersuous.

OVIEDO, a town of Spain, and capital of Asturias d'Oviedo, with a bishop's see, and an university; seated at the confluence of the rivers Ove and Deva, which form the Asta, 50 miles north-west of Leon, and 208 north-west of Madrid. W. Long. 5° 47'. N. Lat. 43° 23'.