japonica
IPA: dʒʌpˈɑnʌkʌ
noun
- Any of several plants originally native to Japan.
- A species of camellia, Camellia japonica.
- A subspecies of the rice Oryza sativa.
- (dated) A species of camellia (Camellia japonica), a native flower of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers.
adjective
- Japanese, from Japan.
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Examples of "japonica" in Sentences
- There were a lot of japonicas in the garden.
- Well, it is a fatshedera japonica variegata.
- The japonica blooms have many different shapes.
- Camellia japonica types bloom this month through March.
- Japonica is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
- Not much is known about viral diseases in Camellia japonica.
- Fauna Japonica is a series of monographs on the zoology of Japan.
- Both the indica as well as the japonica varieties are grown in Assam.
- The beetle species Popillia japonica is commonly known as the Japanese beetle.
- This variety of camellia usually has smaller leaves than the Camellia Japonica.
- The second is a crab of the species Heikea japonica, which is found in Japanese waters.
- Kassu, or most astringent terra japonica, which is black and mixed with paddy criu, husks, and other impurities.
- For an entire season the japonica was the only flower seen at the houses of the fashionable or mixing in the toilettes of the belles.
- Researchers at London's Kew Gardens said Thursday they'd discovered that the Paris japonica has a genetic code 50 times longer than that of a human being.
- Near the sculpture, there's a seemingly nondescript grove of japonica trees that were planted in 1976 by the crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first US-Soviet international space mission.
- My heart warms under snow; flowers with forsythia, japonica blooms, flowering quince, bridal wreath, blood root and violet; yellow running jasmine vine, cape jessamine and saucer magnolias: tulip-shaped, scenting lemon musk upon the air.
- I discovered we have the dreaded Fallopia japonica aka Japanese knotweed, aargh, so that was A Bad Thing; but also found a small and runty Kerria japonica aka batchelors’ buttons or Abraham’s buttonhole, a funny straggly flowering shrub that I happen to be very fond of and intend to nurture, and some self-sown calendulas, which were A Good Thing.