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Definition of Japonicas
1. japonica [n] - See also: japonica
Lexicographical Neighbors of Japonicas
Literary usage of Japonicas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"I remember the beautiful roses in her head-dress, but visions come to me of stiff,
cold japonicas laid round her pale face in the winter time. ..."
2. Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "spring of '50" by Theodore Augustus Barry, Benjamin Adam Patten (1873)
"Now, japonicas, or any other cultivated flowers, were rather costly in those days;
... Some years later, when japonicas were more plentiful, but when, alas! ..."
3. The Unitarian edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1892)
"Upon a crape-draped easel stood a large closed book made of white jonquils and
japonicas, across which, in purple immortelles, appeared the word "Closed," ..."
4. Premium List of the South Carolina Institute: Incorporated in 1850, for the by South Carolina Institute (1870)
"For the best specimen Camelia Japonicas, in six plants'. Silver. For the best
collection Green House plants, in twenty For the best specimen Camelia ..."
5. New Mental Arithmetic, for Primary Departments by James Bates Thomson (1873)
"Floretta had a present of 5 bouquets, each having 12 japonicas : how many japonicas
were there in all? 5. A butcher sold a leg of venison weighing n pounds, ..."
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