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Definition of Japanese lacquer tree
1. Noun. Small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained.
Group relationships: Genus Toxicodendron, Toxicodendron
Generic synonyms: Poisonous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Lacquer Tree
Literary usage of Japanese lacquer tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"... while in Japan there are five indigenous species, and among them three which
can properly be considered trees. The Japanese Lacquer-tree (Rhus ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1895)
"... the Japanese Lacquer- tree, but really an introduced plant from China, has
played a conspicuous part in the development of the mechanical arts in China ..."
3. Poison Ivy and Swamp Sumach by Annie Oakes Huntington (1908)
"The poison sumach closely resembles the Japanese lacquer tree, which yields the
valuable varnish so much used in the decorative wooden- ware of that country ..."
4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... Rhus radicans and diversiloba (Poison Ivy); Rhus pumila (a Southern species)—all
common in North America; the Japanese lacquer tree (Rhus ..."
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