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Japonica

noun

Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties. Synonym: Camellia japonica.

Deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms. Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince.

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"Japonica" Quotes from Famous Books

... or how long. I only know that I swim about in space, with a blue angel, in a state of blissful delirium, until I find myself alone with her in a little room, resting on a sofa. She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. I give ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... Harriet, Margaret Craig's joy at your promotion, and—Honora says I must go out this delightful sunshine morning, and look at all the full-blown crocuses, violets, heath, and pyrus japonica. I have a standard pyrus now—vulgar things compared with your ...

— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

Words linked to "Japonica" : camelia, flowering quince, camellia