Crossword clues for bonsai
bonsai
- Tree in a tray
- Dwarfed potted plant
- Art of dwarfing plants
- Japanese dwarf tree
- Potted dwarf
- Miniature tree
- Type of small tree
- Miniature Japanese tree
- Meticulously-trimmed tree
- Little work for a gardener?
- Japanese miniature tree
- Japanese dwarf of a kind
- Horticultural hobby
- Horticultural art
- Dwarf planting
- Dwarf in the nursery?
- Art of growing dwarfed trees
- Art of dwarfing trees
- Very little tree
- Stunted growth
- Small ornamental plant
- Miniature tree craft
- Miniature tree art
- Miniature planting
- Miniature ornamental tree
- Miniature maple, for one
- Miniature in a pot
- Literally, "tray gardening"
- Japanese living art form
- It has little foliage
- Hobby with little growth
- Dwarfed potted tree
- Dwarf plant
- Dwarf in a pot
- Activity for stunt coordinators
- Potted tree
- Dwarf of a sort
- Dwarfed tree or shrub
- One with short limbs
- Stuntwork?
- Dwarf tree art
- Diminutive tree
- Often-trimmed tree
- Growing art form?
- Green dwarf
- Small job for a gardener?
- Clip art?
- A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
- Dwarfed shrub
- Dwarfed plant
- Tree-shaping art
- Miniaturized tree
- Art of growing dwarf plants
- Miniature-tree culture
- Various trees but no great variety
- Elitist rejected first class oriental art
- Eastern tree: not entirely gigantic features on it
- Oddly brown - as sap, in small pot plant?
- Snooty person rejected excellent little plant
- Fancy basin containing round miniature plant
- A snooty person picked up one small plant
- Yours truly, a snooty type, reviewed Japanese art
- Little growth in industry initially, while privileged type stuck up
- Dwarfed ornamental tree
- Tree-dwarfing art
- Tiny tree
- Tropical tree
- Ornamental shrub
- Japanese art form
- Ornamental tree
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1914, from Japanese bon "basin, pot" + sai "to plant."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context countable English) A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning. 2 (context uncountable English) The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner. vb. (context transitive English) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning. Etymology 2
interj. (misspelling of lang=en banzai)
WordNet
n. a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
Wikipedia
is a Japanese art form using trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of penjing from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese hòn non bộ. The Japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years.
"Bonsai" is a Japanese pronunciation of the earlier Chinese term penzai. The word bonsai is often used in English as an umbrella term for all miniature trees in containers or pots. This article focuses on bonsai as defined in the Japanese tradition.
The purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower). By contrast with other plant cultivation practices, bonsai is not intended for production of food or for medicine. Instead, bonsai practice focuses on long-term cultivation and shaping of one or more small trees growing in a container.
A bonsai is created beginning with a specimen of source material. This may be a cutting, seedling, or small tree of a species suitable for bonsai development. Bonsai can be created from nearly any perennial woody-stemmed tree or shrub species that produces true branches and can be cultivated to remain small through pot confinement with crown and root pruning. Some species are popular as bonsai material because they have characteristics, such as small leaves or needles, that make them appropriate for the compact visual scope of bonsai.
The source specimen is shaped to be relatively small and to meet the aesthetic standards of bonsai. When the candidate bonsai nears its planned final size it is planted in a display pot, usually one designed for bonsai display in one of a few accepted shapes and proportions. From that point forward, its growth is restricted by the pot environment. Throughout the year, the bonsai is shaped to limit growth, redistribute foliar vigor to areas requiring further development, and meet the artist's detailed design.
The practice of bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing, but dwarfing generally refers to research, discovery, or creation of plant cultivars that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species. Bonsai does not require genetically dwarfed trees, but rather depends on growing small trees from regular stock and seeds. Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation, and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-size trees.
Bonsai is a web-based CVS repository browser designed for large programming projects. It was initially developed to fill the Mozilla project's need for good tools to allow multiple developers to edit its extremely large codebase.
Bonsai
- Bonsai, the art of growing small trees and plants
- Bonsai Kitten, an old internet hoax promoting the "art" of shaping animals' bodies
- Bonsai (software), a CVS code management system
- Natara Bonsai, an outliner software for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Windows
- Bonsai (film), a 2011 Chilean film
Bonzai may refer to:
- Colloquial name of Synthetic cannabis
- Bonzai Records, a Belgium-based record label
- Peter Bondra, a hockey player whose nickname is "Bonzai"
- Bonzai 3D Application, a 3D modeling application by AutodesSys.
Bonsai is a 2011 Chilean drama film directed by Cristián Jiménez, based on a book of the same name by Alejandro Zambra. It premiered during the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in UK theaters on 30 March 2012 and US theaters on 11 May 2012.
Usage examples of "bonsai".
The shaping of a bonsai is therefore always a compromise and always a cooperation.
Do you think two sick twisted trees ever made bonsai out of one another?
At the same time he was so groomed and fine that he seemed miniaturized, a jewel-like mechanism like the golden clock or one of the bonsai trees that lined the mantel.
The bonsai had begun crying, its leaves trembling helplessly, its voice reduced to a sniffling squeak.
It smashed into a mass of glass shards and ooze, drugs mixing with the soil from the bonsai trees and with the tangled clock innards.
In the onrush and annealment of his pain he leans toward pretty bonsai and a multicolored field of flowers, flowers to loop and strangle, their fuses clambering toward her throat and into her thighs, the stink refracted, the secret folding and unfolding of petals and of lips.
She sighs and reaches out to touch a bonsai, perfectly guided over the decades by the map that only Micheal Illoni can see or understand.
You provided twenty bonsai trees for the Avalanche offices at Canary Wharf.
Danlo liked almost everything about the garden, especially the little bonsai trees and the cascades of strange, beautiful flowers.
And now, three thousand years later, like a bonsai tree that had been pruned and repruned into its final, twisted shape, he was fixed in himself, was stunted and constrained and nearly dead.
Better his cherished bonsai go a few minutes drier than never be watered again.
One can of water would drench only eight of his eleven bonsai, and the others could not wait till Tuesday.
He nearly got up, then, to prowl the terrace and see if any of his bonsai had begun to wilt, so that he would know which ones to tend to first .
But it struck me that you should write up a first-person account of your run-in with the Dacget your version into a databank first, and you might be able to afford three or four replacements for the bonsai you lost.
Having nothing more to say, he called back the file in which he had stored the bonsai azalea.