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CERCIDIPHYLLUM JAPONICUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn
Synonyms:
Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cercidiphyllum japonicum" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Holonyms ("Cercidiphyllum japonicum" is a member of...):
Cercidiphyllum; genus Cercidiphyllum (one species: katsura tree)