japanese lacquer tree

Questions about japanese lacquer tree

What does japanese lacquer tree mean?

japanese lacquer tree means "small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained".

What is another word for japanese lacquer tree?

Close synonyms include varnish tree, lacquer tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese varnish tree, Japanese sumac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japanese lacquer tree a common word?

japanese lacquer tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.