JAPONICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does japonica mean? 

• JAPONICA (noun)
  The noun JAPONICA has 2 senses:

1. greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties

2. deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms

  Familiarity information: JAPONICA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAPONICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Camellia japonica; japonica

Hypernyms ("japonica" is a kind of...):

camelia; camellia (any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chaenomeles japonica; japonica; maule's quince

Hypernyms ("japonica" is a kind of...):

flowering quince (Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms)

 Context examples 

She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)