japonica, maule's quince, Chaenomeles japonica
(noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms
japonica, Camellia japonica
(noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Japonica (not comparable)
Japanese, from Japan.
Japonica (uncountable)
(dated) A species of camellia (Camellia japonica), a native flower of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers.
japonica (plural japonicas)
Any of several plants originally native to Japan.
A species of camellia, Camellia japonica.
A subspecies of the rice Oryza sativa.
Source: Wiktionary
Ja*pon"i*ca, n. Etym: [NL., Japanese, fr. Japonia Japan.] (Bot.)
Definition: A species of Camellia (Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
