Japonica Synonyms

jə-pŏnĭ-kə
Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. camellia-japonica
Deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. maule's quince
  2. Chaenomeles japonica

Words Related to Japonica

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. flowering quince
  2. grandiflora
  3. sagittaria
  4. gaultheria
  5. spiraea
  6. lonicera
  7. fatsia
  8. cryptomeria
  9. jasminum
  10. mollis
  11. Eriobotrya
  12. thunbergii
  13. campanula
  14. bistorta
  15. chaenomeles
  16. pauciflora

Japonica Sentence Examples

  • The Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) is a kind of cypress, the wood of which is very durable.

  • Of the fresh-water tortoise there are two kinds, the nippon (Tnionyx japonica) and the kame-no-ko (Ernys vulganisjaponica).

  • Fishing lines are manufacttired from the cocoons of the genjiki-mushi (Caligula japonica), which is one of the commonest moths in the islands.

  • The best known and most frequent forms are the asari (Tapes philippinarum), the hamaguri (Meretrix lusoria), the baka (Mactra sulcataria), the aka-gai (Scapharca inflata), the kaki (oyster), the awabi (Haliotis japonica), the sazae (Turbo cornutus), the hora-gai (Trilonium tritonius), &c. Among the cephalopods several are of great value as articles of food, e.g.

  • Such a transfer has been described in various Aroids, Rohdea japonica (Liliaceae), and other plants.

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