Crossword clues for japonica
japonica
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Japonica \Ja*pon"i*ca\, n. [NL., Japanese, fr. Japonia Japan.] (Bot.) A species of Camellia ( Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"camelia," 1819, Modern Latin, literally "Japanese," from Japonica "Japan," from Japon, variant of Japan.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several plants originally native to Japan, but especially a species of camelia, (taxlink Camelia japonica species nosow=1).
WordNet
n. greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers; cultivated in many varieties [syn: Camellia japonica]
deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms [syn: maule's quince, Chaenomeles japonica]
Wikipedia
Japonica refers to things related to Japan.
- One of the SOE F Section networks during the Second World War
- Japonica Polonica Fantastica, a Polish manga publisher
- Bibliotheca Japonica, a collection that appeared between 1833 and 1841 assembled by Philipp Franz von Siebold
- Fauna Japonica, a series of monographs on the zoology of Japan
- Flora Japonica (disambiguation)
- Mathematica Japonica, a scientific journal
- Schistosomiasis japonica, a disease caused by the human blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum
- Terra Japonica, the Japan earth or catechu, a wood extract of several species of Acacia
Japonica is an East Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Usage examples of "japonica".
Anemone japonica, Aralia Sieboldi, Asters, Chrysanthemum, Lilium auratum, Origanum pulchellum, Petasites vulgaris, Physalis Alkekengi, Primula vulgaris flore-pleno, Saxifraga Fortunei, Stokesia cyanea.
The ingredients are a closely guarded secret, but Master Li once told me they included cassia, ginseng, dry ginger, magnolia, broomrape, angelica, plumeless thistle, kikio root, Chinese pepper, japonica, aconite seeds and root, slough grass, and cockscomb.
Anemone japonica, Aralia Sieboldi, Asters, Chrysanthemum, Lilium auratum, Origanum pulchellum, Petasites vulgaris, Physalis Alkekengi, Primula vulgaris flore-pleno, Saxifraga Fortunei, Stokesia cyanea.
Hidden from the world behind an overgrown pot of fatsia japonica, sat a wide wooden table, painted annually to keep the moisture out.
Fauvel had sought a little fresh air in the grand picture-gallery, which, thanks to the talisman called gold, was now transformed into a fairy-like garden, filled with orange-trees, japonicas, laurel, and many rare exotics.
Apart from a few daubed storefronts and an uprooted japonica sapling down the mall, the mob had caused little damage, but what they failed to see was the troop of Girardieau militia mobilising at the far end of the mall.
She could see forest below her and identified Sesquoiadendron giganteum and Cryptomeria japonica, together with members of Cedrus and Picea.
Paths crisscrossed the lawn, fenced by topiary drimys and japonicas, elaborate cockerels, dogs, bears, concentric spheres, and one giant pair of shears.