japonica

IPA: dʒʌpˈɑnʌkʌ

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.

Examples of "japonica" in Sentences

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.