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JAPANESE OAK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small evergreen tree of China and Japan

Synonyms:

Japanese oak; Lithocarpus glaber; Lithocarpus glabra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Japanese oak" is a kind of...):

Lithocarpus densiflorus; tanbark oak (evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan

Synonyms:

Japanese oak; Quercus grosseserrata; Quercus mongolica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Japanese oak" is a kind of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

Holonyms ("Japanese oak" is a member of...):

genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)

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