Associations to the word «Japonica»
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Wiktionary
JAPONICA, adjective. Japanese, from Japan.
JAPONICA, noun. (dated) A species of camellia (Camellia japonica), a native flower of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers.
JAPONICA, noun. Any of several plants originally native to Japan, but especially a species of camellia, Camellia japonica.
Dictionary definition
JAPONICA, noun. Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties.
JAPONICA, noun. Deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.